Would CBS had owned Steinway at that time? We saw many unimpressive Steinways in the 70's out of New York. >I had to remove all the cradles to scrape out from each about an >ounce of hardened tallow and graphite and the same delightful stuff >seems to have been used to lubricate the balance holes, to what >purpose heaven knows. This would prevent the adhesion or absorption >of the various products I'd considered as a solution to the pully >keys. Cradles are key buttons? You had to steam them off to clean inside the key? I doubt the lubricants came from Steinway. I usually use a bit of thinned water/glue...which won't work in your case... Do you consider modern day Kluge key sets too soft? I don't run into a lot of pulley keys unless a previous tech has eased them too much. David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 4/19/2010 9:54:01 AM Subject: [pianotech] Pully keys >I'm working on a 1970 Hamburg model D Steinway -- a pretty >unimpressive piece of workmanship generally speaking and among its >defects is a rather soft Kluge keyboard, nearly with nearly all the >balance holes ovalized. >One a few of the keys I have made a 3mm deep saw kerf at the font of >the hole and inlaid a strip of rosewood. This works fine but I'd >rather find a quicker way since already I have discovered too many >unforeseen jobs to do and I don't want my hourly rate to fall too low! >I had to remove all the cradles to scrape out from each about an >ounce of hardened tallow and graphite and the same delightful stuff >seems to have been used to lubricate the balance holes, to what >purpose heaven knows. This would prevent the adhesion or absorption >of the various products I'd considered as a solution to the pully >keys. >Any good ideas? >JD
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