just like a ringing them bells

Kim Stubblefield loshco@mars.ark.com
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:00:50 -0700


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okay everybody on my piano technicians emailing list...here's one...

a B. Shoninger upright #6215   (suffice it to say it is an early one, =
pierce is unclear).

not in great shape..given to the client as they were leaving winnipeg =
posted to cfb comox (west coast canada).... no bridge cracks but missing =
treble hammers, cracked soundboard, lots of missing strings and bass =
strings spliced by reef knots (yo ho ho and a barrel of piano =
hammers,...this will be fun).

however,  the top octave and a half have something interesting....a =
sostenuto like device operating off the middle pedal that kicks in an =
alternate set of wood hammers which strike a series of bells built in =
under the keybed to the far right.   the bells are like teacup saucers =
stacked largest to the left on the horizontal.  this is obviously not a =
retro-fit.

a few of the wood mallets/hammers are broken...client has no money of =
course (they live where i do) but want to put it into playing shape.

ANYBODY run into one of these before, have any ideas or thoughts?

thanks

james lithgow




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