Cracked Keybed

[Brian Trout]

Hi Ron,

<snip>...broke the corner off the keybed of a little Baldwin console. <snip>
The keybed material was something that looked like pressed flaked
cardboard, a sort of low grade masonite.<snip>

Dang, I didn't know anyone was making keybeds out of that kind of stuff.
Hope I never have to fix one!

Brian T.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: Cracked Keybed


> >There might be a few more options that might work.  The way it's broken
out
> >can make a difference how it can be repaired.
>
>  - or IF it can be repaired. Years back, a rather infamous local moving
> company > Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty in the break, and a sheet of
pressure
> sensitive adhesived veneer on the bottom, applied by their brother in law
> furniture fixer, didn't work all that well. I don't think anything would
> have. The keybed material was something that looked like pressed flaked
> cardboard, a sort of low grade masonite. Anybody know what this stuff was?
> It had apparently worked just fine as a keybed for umpteen years, but once
> broken, didn't leave much to glue back together. There are probably a
whole
> bunch of them still out there and still doing just fine in their unbroken
> condition, but I ended up making a new keybed by stacking a couple of
> sheets of Baltic Birch plywood to the appropriate thickness and replacing
> this one.
>
> Aside from that, I'd probably go with routing and inlay like Brian
suggested.
>
> Ron N
>