[pianotech] player stools

[James Grebe]

Thank you, Bruce, for your reply.
James
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Dornfeld" <bdornfeld at earthlink.net>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] player stools


>I haven't seen anyone mention pickles, so I will.  Most of the old player
> benches that I have seen have pickles in the bench.  The pickle is an 
> oblong
> piece of wood shaped like a, you guessed it, a pickle.  A bench uses one 
> on
> each side, or two in total.  They are installed on the inside with a 
> screw.
> When inside the bench, the bench lies flat.  When you swing them onto the
> back side, they elevate the back side of the bench top, creating the angle
> you want to pump away.  I know I have seen pickles in some parts catalog,
> but that may have been some other decade.  I cannot see why anyone would
> want a bench that is permanently on that angle.  When someone wants to 
> just
> sit down and play with their own fingers, they would need a different 
> bench.
> I do not see a market for such a bench.
>
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>
> Bruce Dornfeld, RPT
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