Hi Tom, the camel scene is from an authentic 19th century weave program and is very appropriate to this pianos' case style. Do you ever have anything nice to say??? Thump --- Tom Driscoll <tomtuner@comcast.net> wrote: > > Subject: Replacing upright panels with speaker > cloth. > > Hi Terry, > Talkin 'bout yo' Mason ??? Doesn't it have a > nice > panel held in by wooden swivel clips that you can > remove, allowing for the presence of a fretwork > panel > down there ( up top, too ) for child/drunk free > environments??? Mine did. As a mostly > acoustically-friendly alternative to cheesy looking, > modern speaker grill cloth, I sometimes put Jacquard > loom material in these spaces, which comes from my > local Hancock Fabric store in a variety of reeally > neat, authentic picture weaves from the 19th century > that match the case style of the piano in question. > For example, for my Egyptian Revival ebonized Knabe, > I > envision placing a scene of camels marching past the > pyramids of Giza that I saw there recently. But I'd > better buy is now, as these are limited production > runs which are only dragged out of the vault > periodically. > This is also great when the original fretwork > is > damaged beyond repair, of missing entirely. > Thump > > > Gordon, > Camels marching past the pyramids? And you call > speaker cloth tacky? > I guess that's why they make chocolate AND > vanilla.<G> > Tom -freezing @ 4 degrees F. -Driscoll > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
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