> It looks to me like Steinway doesn't put anything on the plate, but rather, > coats the front of the pinblocks and then begin fitting them by removing all > the shiney spots that appear when the plate is dropped in. The thought has occurred to me. Still, a fair amount of the stuff remains on the plate, and sticks to it better than dry or water slurry graphite. Maybe they graphited both surfaces. >There is a lot of > untouched surface on these blocks, but the graphite is all over the front edge. Sure is, but it's all over the plate flange too. > It also seems that extra care is taken to make sure the lower edge fits > best,(perhaps to make it appear to a feeler gauge that there is total contact ?) > Regards, > > Ed Foote RPT Oh surely not! <G> I've often wondered what sort of QC procedures, or lack thereof, accounted for what we see in these old pianos. The QC is instrumental (sorry) in defining most processes. Ron N
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