[pianotech] toy piano tone bar help

[Joe Goss]

Hi Dave,
A good machinist may be able to tell you the type of iron that was used. 
Most likely nothing fancy due to cost and age of the piano.
Check the micrometer size of the tines as they could just be nails.
Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Doremus" <algiers_piano at bellsouth.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 5:15 PM
Subject: [pianotech] toy piano tone bar help


>  After some pleading I took on the restoration of an old toy piano for a 
> long time customer, it was her grand mothers and she wants her grand child 
> to play it. The tough problem is that it has 7 notes missing. These are 
> round rods, tapered and flattened at one end and driven into a bar that 
> bolts to the case. I can easily make something that looks exactly like 
> whats there but it won't ring like the old ones. Does anyone have any 
> suggestions about steel, hardness, termination, anything that I might be 
> missing? Feel free to write back off list as this is not really piano 
> related...
>
> --Dave
>
>    New Orleans
> -- 
>