The other option is just to buy a spare toy piano for parts. I've noticed that some of the old tone bars sound better than the new ones. The easiest way to tune them is to use a dremmel tool with a cut-off wheel to slice a bit off the end to make it sharp, or add a tight coil of piano wire around the end to make it flat. You can control the pitch a bit by moving the coil up the shaft to make it sharper or down the shaft to make it flatter - kinda like the Fender Rhodes. On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> wrote: > The description of the tines you give is the exact description of current > model tines in Schoenhut toy pianos. > > It might be a long shot, but you might see if Schoenhut would sell you some > parts. There are 18, 25, 30, and 37 note models. > > http://www.toypiano.com/index.asp > > Kent Swafford > > PS - Check out the toy piano videos at: > > http://www.toypiano.com/media_video.asp > > On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:15 PM, David Doremus wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100814/194b2691/attachment.htm>
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