Recommendations from experience, please/Alan R. Barnard

[Alan R. Barnard]

Hi Joe and all:

Okay, instead of "baby grand" lets just call it a
"small-grand-with-really-short-and-heavy-lower-base-strings-with-more-inharm
onicity-than-a-lot-of-spinets-that-looks
nice-in-a-corner-and-DOES-HAVE-a-true-repetition-spring-and-gravity-assisted
-action-with-true-una-corda-and-real-sostenuto-that-I-happen-to-have-just-bo
ught-and-really-like."

(I'm refinishing it and doing lotsa work. Geo. Steck, 1921)

Yes it's the Kimball (Francis Bacon, et al) style molded-in-the-shank kinda
knuckle--I just echoed the "pearl drop" shape thing 'cause that's what good
'ol WimBlees called them in a note to me.

What is meaning of "IMHO"?

Thanks, as always, for tips and suggestions. The knuckles may not be pearls,
but you are a gem. (As Pogo would have said: "Oog")

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: Recommendations from experience, please/Alan R. Barnard


> Alan,
> My recommendation for a Chickering would be Ronsen, (w/the Euro Felt), it
> would be very close to what was there originally.
> Baldwin needs a harder hammer than Isaacs, IMHO.
> As for the "Baby Grand", (Gawd I hate that term), I would suggest Abel,
it's
> a nice compromise. Not too hard, not too soft.
> BTW "Pearls" are round, unless you are talking about River Pearls, (don't
> even think it!). So what kind, exactly, are these Knuckles? Are you
> referring to the knuckle that is built into the shank, by any chance? If
so,
> a good term would be "Kimball" style knuckles, as they used to use a lot
of
> those way back when Jack was middle aged. (hehehe)
> Best Regards,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
>
> We must first understand where we've been before we can tell
> where we're going. Squares are part of the equation.<G>
>