That's a 6'4" 1890s Knabe I did a few years ago. Del did the design for me. This is the one that has a 6-inch by 8-inch solid white ash (think baseball bat) belly rail. Del didn't think we needed to beef up the belly rail in the treble! ;-) I used a nice piece of birdseye maple to cover the seam. I like how it came out, but I like how Ron Overs did his piano that he brought to Rochester a few years back. I don't have a photo of his work but it was much like what I did on this M&H upright some years ago. The cutoff in the lower right is the original cutoff with the original spruce on it. The cutoff in the upper right is some junk cypress (left over from building a floating turtle sunbathing platform). I basically just got the two edges (cyrpess and sitka panel) close, and then took my Bill Spurlock soundboard shimming tools and routed out a "v" and glued in a dark cedar shim. I think Ron had spruce on either side (panel and cutoff) and some sort of dark wood (cedar, maybe mahogany - I don't remember) contrasting wood. Looked real nice - more-or-less like in the picture below. Ron had a nicely curved cutoff, and hence his shim was in one, very pleasing to the eye, sweeping curve. I liked it! Terry Farrell Oh...... Pinblock inserts here also! On Apr 1, 2010, at 9:27 AM, David Love wrote: > Terry: > > Which piano is that? I like that look in the bass corner. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100401/4de15b41/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Jun02_01.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 49791 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100401/4de15b41/attachment-0001.jpg>
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