DIY Ingenuity funny repair

[John Ross]

One person I knew, took off the damaged veneer, and covered the whole piano, 
in the woodgrain, arborite.
He did a really good job. He was one of those perfectionist types.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Carey" <mcpiano at videotron.ca>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : DIY Ingenuity funny repair


> 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.
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> Marcel Carey
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>> -----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
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>> 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
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