Thanks, Arle. I thought that might be the case, so I asked just to make
sure.

Barbara

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Arle Lommel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Barbara,
>
> I would not dope the tangent stems with anything. Soap would make them
> slippery and thus liable to turn on you while playing. If the tangents
> aren't going in all the way, I would very gently use an X-Acto blade to take
> off minute amounts to get them to fit right. Finding where they are rubbing
> can be a bit of work, but in my experience they tend to pick up a bit of a
> "shine" where they are compressed in a tight fit going into the hole, but I
> wouldn't ever use soap on them because of what the side-effects would be.
>
> -Arle
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Barbara Currier wrote:
>
> Ah, here's something that just popped into my head. My father sometimes put
> soap on screws to make them go into wood easier. Would that or some other
> substance be helpful or harmful getting my tangents farther into the keys?
>
> Thanks, again,
> Barbara
>
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