Sarah, I have to disagree a "little" bit here. IMHO, the primary reason that the Teflon actions had such a hard time with piano technicians is that that never bothered to "teach" the techs how to deal with it/them. From what I've been told, teflon responds exactly the opposite of felt bushed flanges. Avery At 12:32 AM 8/25/04, you wrote: >At 12:27 AM -0400 8/25/04, Sarah Fox wrote: >>... The problem with Steinway's Teflon blunder was the >>loosening of the Teflon in the wooden hole with humidity changes. ... > >Sarah, > >I have to intervene as a result of this comment. Maybe you will appreciate >what I have to say, maybe not. > >For the record what I am about to say is an inner unfoldment that I came >to solely after several years of working with repinning and/or replacing >teflon bushings. > >If there is to be any blunder attributed to Steinway and the teflon >bushing experience: > >1) it was only in that company's over evaluation of the abilities of the >piano technicians in the field to understand the beauty of the teflon >bushing in all its glory, > >2) to not forsee the unwillingness of piano technicians to invest in the >necessary tools to work with them, > >3) and the capacity to truly understand the techniques as to how to >properly replace and/or repin them. > >Those three things were, in my judgement, the main reasons for the >eventual undoing of the teflon bushing, not humidity changes. > >Somebody mentioned it was ahead of its time. Hardly. In my opinion the >general populace of piano technicians during that era were just unable to >embrace it, so it got the bad mouth from those who never really gave it >the time of day. > >Such is the way of some things. > >Keith >-- >Keith McGavern >Registered Piano Technician >Oklahoma Chapter 731 >Piano Technicians Guild >USA > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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