Sensitive songwriter

[Steve Grattan]

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
>   Well, after all this time, I had a new complaint today.   A customer had
> purchased a moderately well rebuilt Steinway in Florida and brought it up here
> to Nashville.
>    Today, he pointed out a feature of the piano he can no longer stand, and
> wants me to correct it.  It seems that the rebuilders used molded plastic
> keytops and non-Steinway sharps to cover the keyboard.  The sharps are too
> short, and the gap at the back of them is bothersome to him. Anybody know
> where I can get sharps that are 3 7/8" long?
>     Also, when a natural note is depressed, the letter name of that note is
> visible at the very back end of the key, ( as it sits under the fall board
> felt!!!)  He can no longer compose at the keyboard with this distraction, and
> wants it changed. ( I do indulge these people, this writer's last hit record
> was worth over  $1.5 million to him, so I take his idiosyncrosies seriously).
> I can buff them off, but the other consideration is that the very slight
> overhang that these slightly wider keytops have over the sides of the keys is
> also driving him crazy, ( though I think it is more of a short putt than a
> drive..........)
>     I may be better off just having the entire keyboard recovered to spec.
> and am open to suggestions for the highest quality work available.  I don't
> see myself doing all this if a key recovering service can do a really slick
> job.  Who has been turning out top-drawer work?
> Thanks,
> Ed Foote


Call Mark Bisso at Pianotek  1 800 347 3854.  He will take care of you
with anything you might need re these keys...

Steve Grattan
Lost Chord Clinic
lostchordclinic@ameritech.net