WOW!! I saw GOLD PAINTED tuning pins!

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings,

          Welll,,, I think that when the piano is old and groaty, wire 
brushed, cleaned and painted tuning pins look better than the crud and stains.

Julia
Reading, PA
In a message dated 7/27/2006 7:12:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com writes:
"Comments?"

Fagetaboutit! Yuck!

Terry Farrell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: KeyKat88 at aol.com 
To: pianotech at ptg.org 
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:19 AM
Subject: WOW!! I saw GOLD PAINTED tuning pins!


Greetings,

          I tuned a small grand piano (circa 1920) for a small chapel amd the 
tuning pins and the fore strings about 2" in, were painted gold!

          Now, I love to paint. Its a hobby, I mean, I have wooden wash props 
that I painted purple and aqua sides and I masked them with peg board to 
spray gold polka-dots. All this is to say that I am veerrrry critical of how good 
a paint job is .

        These tuning pins were wire brushed and the girt and grime was 
cleaned off, (the prep work was obviously well done) the piano was obviously masked 
to avoid over spray and then  painted gold with spray paint!   ....and IT 
LOOKED GOOD!  I tuned it, and the paint never got in my way, felt gummy or even 
chipped!!!  It was a well done job! 

       The History channel recently had a documentary on paint's use, 
function and it's history. It explained how a coat of paint will stop rust in it's 
tracks. I have a customer who just was given an old grand piano and the pin area 
is UGLY, I mean, I wire brushed it and vaccuumed and it still looks grubby. 
I'm ready to suggest a paint job to this customer, wire brush and masking 
tape/cardboard in hand!

      Gimme paint, dahmik! and I am dangerous!!! Seeing this opened up a new 
dimension'ne. Comments? 

Julia Gottshall
Reading, PA 
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