Odd dimensions of sharps.

[Stéphane Collin]

Hi Michael.

I remember running across some Collar & Collar uprights with the same 
round-fronted sharps.  Also, they all sounded, at 440 pitch, as if they had 
way not enough tension in their strings.

Best regards.

Stéphane Collin.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Gamble" <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "'gordon stelter'" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>; "'Pianotech'" 
<pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:40 PM
Subject: RE: Odd dimensions of sharps.


> Hello List and Gordon S
> This terrible olde John Ward of London piano (you know, the one I think
> should burn well) has strange sharps. The sides taper normally up to the
> playing surface and top tapers gradually to the fall end... BUT they have
> Round Fronts!!! And the naturals between which they go have round-fronted
> slots.
> Regards from a dark Sussex-on-Sea
> Michael G.(UK)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gordon stelter [mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 05 October 2005 15:44
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Odd dimensions of sharps.
>
> They're just shaped a little differently than the
> replacements I was thinking of using, which wouldn't
> fit. But once I got the crap-ola off them, were in
> pretty good shape.
>     Speaking of which: I know pianists who dislike
> the "FAT" sharps on old Masons and Conovers, but I
> believe these are dimensionally standard at the base,
> but just don't taper toward the top. So  they could be
> rep[laced with "normal" ones. Unless someone knows
> differently ?
>     Thump
>
>
> --- Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@luther.edu> wrote:
>
>> At 07:55 AM 10/5/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>> >What does none standard sharps mean?    Unless they
>> resemble a dark bump,
>> >I'd square them up, steel wool and several coats of
>>  Watco Black.
>> >
>> >David I.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know what, specifically, the Thumpster was
>> referring to (narrower
>> maybe??), but one VERY non standard sharp would be
>> the Mehlin "Patent
>> Grand" one which the back third gently curves down
>> to about 1/8" ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > >Like Terry, I love the look of plain ebony. But
>> this
>> > >old Chickering I'm fixing has non-standard
>> sharps,
>> > >that I don't want to be dissolved by the goo on
>> > >careless humans' hands. So I intend to paint
>> them.
>> > >    Brands come and brands go. Does anyone have
>> > >definitive recommendadtions regarding a current
>> brand
>> > >of spray paint to use ? Gloss or satin? Rubbed
>> with
>> > >steel wool ?  Other application advice?
>> > >    I want these to look ( ahem ) "sharp"!
>> > >    Thanks!
>> > >      Thump
>>
>>
>> Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
>> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa
>> 52101-1045
>> 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
>>
>> - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches
>> my golf score,
>> - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ
>> match my handicap.
>>
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