At 23:49 12/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I found a mute in the bottom of a little Kimball spinet last week, and I've >been using it ever since. I like the patina on the handle, the aged rubber >has a nice feel to it as it slides between the strings, and the corners of >the front edge are rounded, not square like my Schaff mutes. > >I looked at it more closely today and found "Tonk Bros Co. Chicago" in little >raised letters on the side. > >Was this a now-defunct piano supply house? Ever heard of "Tonk Brothers"? > >Tom S Tonk was a piano manufacturer 1880s-1920s. Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) for Bio-powered Digitally Activated Lever Action Tone Generation Systems
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