Paul Another option is to use suede leather and cut strips of the appropriate size. I buy full skins at Tandy Leather/The Leather Factory. Usually I purchase skins in earth tones and gray but occasionally there are skins of black available. To attach it to the music desk clean down to bare wood and use hide glue or fish glue (longer set time). As far as the replacement felt for the ends of the music desk I am using a lot of billiard cloth these days. It comes in a variety of colors and is slightly thinner than most of the thin key bushing cloth. I get it from a billiard supply store and usually purchase the remnants of bolts that are too small to cover a full pool table. The dye lots don't always match from one bolt to the next and the billiard guys are stuck with cloth that is unusable for them but is more than adequate for us technicians. I've gotten some very good deals on quite a bit of cloth this way. It is also good for understring felt and string braid when you want all the colors to match. Regards Norman Cantrell, RPT ________________________________ From: "Paul Milesi, RPT" <paul at pmpiano.com> To: PTG CAUT List <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 10:17:08 AM Subject: [CAUT] Deskframe Felt Can anyone recommend a good felt to replace the messy, disintegrating stuff that Young Chang used for deskframes on 12-year-old Weber grands? We've got four of them, and they're making a mess. A few months back, I had ordered some Steinway deskframe felt, hoping to use that. Nice, but it's not long enough. I ended up replacing the stuff on one piano with very cheap felt, and that was a mistake -- it already looks like hell. I happen to have a 1/4 yard of Schaff High Quality Key Bushing Cloth #321-1/2 Bulk (Thin), and that looks like it might be good stuff. Kind of expensive, though, for this purpose. Or is that what's needed to withstand years of rubbing? I was also wondering about some kind of re-stringing felt, but not being a rebuilder, I'm not familiar with thicknesses, etc. -- Paul Milesi, RPT Staff Piano Technician Howard University Department of Music Washington, DC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100910/c719a5bd/attachment-0001.htm>
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