Shoenhut Toy piano

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Rick,
Not the same idea exactly. The gloc. bars are free standing tone generators
while the tines are attached on one end. You would ruin the bars tone and
create false beats.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R E Barber" <bassooner42@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: Shoenhut Toy piano


> 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
>
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