Shoenhut Toy piano

[R E Barber]

Would you be able to lower the pitch by grinding from the middle, as in 
a glockenspiel bar?

- Rick Barber



> Hi Rick:
>     I have had experience with Schoenhut's baby grand toy piano.  It 
> uses a
> row of hardened steel rods attached to a frame.  The hammers strike 
> each rod
> creating a tone.  To tune (I used an accutuner), raise the pitch of a 
> note
> by grinding  a bit of metal off the end of the rod.  To lower the 
> pitch,
> solder a bit of solder to the end.  Schoenhut still has parts for these
> toys, I used a new set of rods which were woefully out of tune.
>     Mike Kurta