Lily Krakowski on sat 8 feb 03
Crazes are said to be breeding grounds for bacteria. So are pinholes and
cracks. Bacteria from unclean eating utensils is said to be able to cause
trenchmouth, a rather annoying disease. Is that tentative and hesitant
enough?
As to piano lids. French polish, used on many pieces of fine old furniture
is a difficult to apply shellac/alcohol and oil layered finish. Glorious to
behold, hard to maintain, prone to water stains. I would never put anything
remotely connected with water on a piano...but it is not a worry, as I do
not have one. But any pot that "sweats" or "leaks" should not be sold as
functional....unless the unmistakable function makes it unsuitable for
containing liquid.
I enjoy sweeping generalizations by the way. Although I generally vacuum...
Lili Krakowski
P.O. Box #1
Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
Be of good courage....
Philip Poburka on sun 9 feb 03
Dear Lily,
Lest we forget...a happy immersion in a strong Bleach
solution is a nice regimen to discourage what Bacteria as
may have insinuated themselves (bidden or no) into the
sundry pin-hole, crack or craze...of some Pottery vessel or
other...
Too...French Polish has been dead dead diddly 'dead' for a
long long time for ('modern' era) Painos, as them Jap
'yamahas' and the like...
American Painos had mostly been, from the 1880s, a Varnish
finish, as was intensly protracted and laborous to produce,
and I believe, unexcelled in it's brilliance and deapth.
Gone gone and gone as well...if not 'with' the 'Button
Hook', then certainly with the gentleman's "hi-top" 20
eyelet Shoe and the manual 'Spark Advance' for one's
Automobile. Gone with 'manners' generally, one may
onserve...gone with the notion that such things were 'worth'
doing.
Some European Painos may well have persisted with the French
Polish method for a few decades into the 20th Century, but
not here...
It is all 'sprayed' synthetic low-skill ( and looks it)
finishes, now a days, 'plastic' basicly...and has been a
long while too.
Junk...how anyone can stand them I do not know.
Modern painos are pretty much junk thru'and thru'...they are
cynical.
They 'function' with none of the brilliance, deapth and
delicacy...and none of the aesthetic of their
ancestors...even as may be said of most people I suppose,
for that matter...
I would encourage anyone posessing one these Painos ( er,
Pianos) to place as many 'seeping' weeping or down right
leaking vessels on them as possible.
In fact, if one's roof were to leak, I would strongly
encourage them to move the offending Piano as quickly as
possible, under that very spot.
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lily Krakowski"
To:
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Trenchmouth and French Polish for beginners
Crazes are said to be breeding grounds for bacteria. So are
pinholes and
cracks. Bacteria from unclean eating utensils is said to be
able to cause
trenchmouth, a rather annoying disease. Is that tentative
and hesitant
enough?
As to piano lids. French polish, used on many pieces of
fine old furniture
is a difficult to apply shellac/alcohol and oil layered
finish. Glorious to
behold, hard to maintain, prone to water stains. I would
never put anything
remotely connected with water on a piano...but it is not a
worry, as I do
not have one. But any pot that "sweats" or "leaks" should
not be sold as
functional....unless the unmistakable function makes it
unsuitable for
containing liquid.
I enjoy sweeping generalizations by the way. Although I
generally vacuum...
Lili Krakowski
P.O. Box #1
Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
Be of good courage....
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