DIY Ingenuity funny repair

[Marcel Carey]

The best one I've seen is someone replaced keytops with Arborite
material (you know the real hard countertop stuff). But they did select
the white with gold dots (speckles ??). I can only imagine the amount of
work that went into the trimming.

Marcel Carey

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] De la part de John Ross
> Envoyé : 30 mars 2007 16:48
> À : Pianotech List
> Objet : Re: DIY Ingenuity
> 
> 
> I saw a repair to make a piano operational, when the hammer 
> flange was gone. 
> The person had inserted lollipop sticks on each side of the 
> hammer to guide 
> it. They were attached to the hammer rail.
> Another was pieces of thread tied to the bridle straps, and 
> to the wire. A 
> real pain to remove, when replacing the bridle/ action tapes. 
> Broken shank repaired with a popsicle stick and duct tape, as 
> a splint. Nails hammered in alongside the pins, hoping to 
> make them tighter. A piece of coathanger wire, tied on to a 
> broken string, going through the 
> drilled out hole on the tuning pin. This was an amateur tuner 
> fix. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca