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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from > new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hurdygurdy%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from > new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
