Hey, I have just the piano for your customer...Wurlitzer Tom Thumb piano, 54 notes or so, 3 strings per unison, I have had it for many years. It's in pieces and needs putting back together and finishing up. This will be a nice little piano... David Ilvedson ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: <A440A@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:56:17 EDT Subject: woe on the boat,(block epoxy) >Greetings, > Ok, so I took it in a weak moment, but it is on the bench and I gotta >deal with it. >A local jazz musician, completely disgusted with the sound of electric >keyboards on jazz gigs, went looking for an easily portable acoustic piano. He >found it on Ebay. It is a 1910 Cramer "Ship piano". Five octaves, fold-out >keyboard, weighs about 150 pounds. 67 bass strings in bichords and a few strung >notes on top. Oh, did I mention the bird cage? > Anyhow, the ribs were almost completely separated from the board, the >board was separated from most of the back, and the posts were loose at the sides >and bottom. The bridges were also easily popped off once the strings were >removed. I got all that stuff reglued, and will be putting the soundboard back >in tomorrow. The block is the last real task to deal with. The block comprises >the upper portion of the sounding assembly and there was no way to remove it >without completely destroying the piano and starting from scratch. > The piano was strung with atypical tuning pins, (at least, in my >experience). They are .250" diameter and only 2 inches long. These are smaller than >any piano pins I know of, and larger than the zither/harpsichord pins. The >dainty little plate doesn't encourage me to drill the holes out to accomodate >the 1/0 pins, and they are all too long,anyhow. I can only imagine re-using >the originals. There was marginal torque on quite a few of them prior to >disassembly, so I want to treat the block before driving them back. > I have, against all my "traditional" training, become a fan of CA glue in >the treatment of loose pins, but I wonder if I can't do something a little >more extreme with this block. I know that some of you have used the West System >epoxy in block repair, and would like to know what your technique is. The >block is a solid beech beam with two very thin laminations on top. Any ideas? >Thanks, >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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