JD The generally held rumor is that the wood was treated with a tallow solution of some kind & ooops, it didn't work, But then this, is, after all, the incredible good fortune for American Techs. You see ....it keeps us employed. Yes & then there is Teflon & Teflon impregnations. I do not believe its' ample as all/most American pianos I know of employed the use of maple especially in flanges I looove this company. grin. Hope you are well Dale I must bow to your greater experience. By chance I have just been sent a set of shanks and hammers from an old New York Steinway S. Having received the new flanged shanks today from Renner I matched them up to the old ones to prepare for the job and realised that there was some verdigris on all the patterns I have been sent. I don't know how long the piano has been in England. It is very rare to see this in European pianos. Do you think it has to do with the maple flanges and some chemical in the wood that causes the action? I can't think of any European piano that has used maple flanges. Most of them use hornbeam and Herrburger and a few others used service wood (sorbus domestica) for the flanges, even though Herrburger used maple for the other parts in some actions. JD ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071109/cbe9afa2/attachment.html
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