Felt, etc.

[Brian Henselman]

I think that scarlet would look just fine.  However, a local rebuilder here
[Bernard Mollberg, my boss;)] dyes all of his scarlet felt to a deep
burgundy (sp?) and uses it on both NA and Ebony grands.  Looks really good
too.

BTW, my personal asthetic pet-peave is chrome plated tuning pins.  So many
rebuilders like to use chrome plated pins on turn-of- the-century grands.
Yuck!  Chrome tuning pins looks great in a new Yamaha with a High-Gloss
polyester finish, but they look TACKY TACKY TACKY in a restored Victorian
Steinway.

On the same topic (asthetics).  I kinda like the chrome plated plate bolts
for modern Steinways.  In fact, I ordered all new chrome plated bolts for my
1890 Steinway B, and it looks so much better than its old peeling gold
painted bolts.  Yeh, I contradicted my own pet-peave by switching to chromed
bolts, but I felt that the improved functionality of non-painted bolt heads
outweighed the "historic" accuracy.  (Even stripped and repainted properly,
painted bolts don't snug down as easily for me).

Cheers,
Brian Henselman, RPT


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew J. Todd <pianotech88@juno.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 9:15 AM
Subject: Felt, etc.


>Would scarlet felt look tacky in mahogany piano's?
>
>Also, would the quality of the castor's on grand piano's effect the
>tuning?  Would you all suggest transporter wheels, even if this piano is
>not moved around?  How do I determine if a grand piano is leveled or not?
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>Matthew