Things are just getting underway with my Bluethner rebuilding project and I'm trying to locate felt for various places -- understring felt, stringing braid, hitchpin punchings, etc. Problem is, APSCO, Schaff and Renner don't appear to supply *cobalt blue* felt! Aye-yi-yi! Anyone have a source for that color? While I'm at it -- has anyone here modernized the action in a Bluethner (ie. replaced the old quasi-English action with modern wippen, capstan and hammershanks/flanges)? I understand that Jim Reeder (Michigan Piano Sales in Grand Ledge, MI) does this kind of thing and is a Bluethner dealer. This particular Bluethner doesn't have the fourth string (Jim wrote an article on the subject a few months back) but it does have agraffes top to bottom. What criteria determines whether or not they should be replaced? None appear to be in trouble structurally. Ron Torrella Self-explanatory - [A]bort [C]ancel [R]etry University of Illinois Inexplicable - + + +
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