Hallet Davis teardown update

[Dean May]

Hi Dale

 

I only have tear down pics. The legs have obviously taken a beating. It was
hand grained rosewood over mahogany- Asian, I think. I posted some pics of
it previously showing the treble fish on steroids. I also posted pics
showing full agraffes  and agraffes on the bridges. 

 

I'm doing a basic restring, pinblock, hammers, refinish. Nothing exotic in
the belly. I'm planning on routering out the pinblock fields and epoxying
new sections of pinblock in place, per Terry Farrell's previously posted
pics. I'm gonna try it. Replacing the entire original block would entail
some pretty exotic cutting and shaping. 

 

I am wanting to rescale. It has 23 notes in the bass section; tenor notes 24
& 25 are plain at 1111 mm and 1078 mm respectively. The original scale still
stenciled on the piano calls for 22 ga. We took of 21 ga for #24 and 20 ga
for #25. Very little of what came off corresponds to the stencils. So who
knows what is going on. Better to start over. 

 

I've used Arledge before to do a rescale. Anyone have any other
recommendations or want to play with it? :-) I'll be happy to submit a
spreadsheet.

 

Blessings,

 

 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of erwinspiano at aol.com
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:36 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Hallet Davis teardown update

 




  Hey Dean
  What are you doing to this old beast.  I Love the relics from 1890 to
1910. Real Tanks... with real redesign potential & gogeous cases. Real jig
saw puzzles. Do you have an full glamour shot of this Beauty.
 Just remember these paraphrased words from Buddy Bob Davis. The key to
successful piano work is be able to get yourself out of trouble. Wow...been
scorching my ears all week.
  Now it's your turn

  Dale 

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