Using sandpaper on tuning pins.

[Ed Sutton]

Don-
Many opinions expressed by many people over many years on the pianotech 
list. Susan Kline in particular led the field in this.
Supported by my experience. Flooding smells bad, uses lots of expensive glue 
and (in my experience) can leak out of the piano and puddle up on the floor. 
Plus flooding tends to seal around the pins, making future touch-up 
applications difficult, and may also glue the pinblock to the plate.
I have found that subtle applications do the job just as well or better.
If I knew how to do a comprehensive test that would settle this question 
forever, I would do it!  Until such time as life becomes objective I expect 
there will be many opinions about this. If you want objective evidence of 
majority opinion, I suppose we can hire a polling firm to call technicians 
around the world. People who have spent more time reading the pianotech list 
may have other opinions of technicians' opinions. Let them speak.
By the way, what does that Latin after your name mean?
Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca>
To: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>; "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Using sandpaper on tuning pins.


> Hi Ed,
>
> What basis do you have for the "few drops at a time". Data please.
>
> At 01:44 PM 7/20/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>  Now most technicians prefer to apply a few drops at  a time, just
>>enough to get the pin to hold.   Ed Sutton
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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