Thick Rubber Piano Feet reply

[James Grebe]

Hi ,
I think I have seen the rubber cups long ago somewhere but I don't remember
where.  I only build them out of hardwood.  Sorry I can't help you.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G
pianoman+AEA-inlink.com
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano Peripherals in
St. Louis, MO
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From: Ricard de La Rosa +ADw-ricard+AEA-propiano.com+AD4-
To: pianotech+AEA-ptg.org +ADw-pianotech+AEA-ptg.org+AD4-
Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 6:46 AM
Subject: Thick Rubber Piano Feet


+AD4-Dear James:
+AD4-
+AD4-As you probably know, in the major metropolitan centers, grand pianos and
+AD4-neighbors who do not particularly appreciate piano music, pose  a problem.
+AD4-Pianos are unwelcome in many apartment buildings.
+AD4-
+AD4-In New York, we have a type of very thick rubber insulater that one uses to
+AD4-replace the casters on grand pianos.  The supposed purpose is to prevent
the
+AD4-sound from running through the legs into the floor and down into the
apartment
+AD4-below.  (We also insulate the bottoms of the soundboard area ...between the
+AD4-struts and everyplace else, with 6+ACI- foam rubber...and other bizarre
things).
+AD4-
+AD4-Do you have or make this type of rubber block?  There is a commercial
outfit
+AD4-that manufactures such caster replacements, but we have lost track of them.
+AD4-Nowadays, we simply buy big heavy sheets of 2+ACI- rubber and cut them to
shape,
+AD4-laminating whatever widths are required to duplicate the caster height.
+AD4-
+AD4-If you alrady make such a contraption, it would be handy.
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-Thank you,
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-Ricard de La RosA
+AD4-PRO PIANO
+AD4-