[pianotech] Spoons or wippens

[Ron Nossaman]

John Delacour wrote:

> One thing I can guarantee is that if you immerse, bury or boil iron 
> spoons in the evilest tallow you can find for five years, when you 
> remove them you will not find a trace of Vertigris or even verdigris on 
> them.

Well, that tears it. After all these years, it turns out we 
should have been boiling those old Steinway parts all along to 
avoid the verdigrief altogether.
Ron N