Enjoyed looking at the pictures, Mark. You have audio? I'd like to hear more about the plate, if you have time. -- JF On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, perrys piano restorations < perrymark at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I thought I would take a few moments to update everyone on the piano my > shop is building from scratch! The pictures show a general shot of the case > before we shaped the front, the decal which is hand gilt in 24kt gold, the > piano plate (not cast iron, rather, advanced high strength steel weldment > made down the road from my shop), the under-side of the piano. > > To re-cap quickly, the underside shows primative art from the catacombs of > Rome, with a grape vine pattern interconnecting it all. The Plate has > passion flowers, angels, and a scroll from the book of revelation. The hand > gilt decal is layered gold leaf, and show a boy sitting with a lion, lamb, > etc.... and the holy spirit above with two angels. The inside of the rim is > olive wood from the middle east, and the outside is amboyna burl. (not as > red in real life.) > > the finish is french polish, in which we used frankinsense and muhr as an > addative to the shellac. We used holy oil from Jerusalem to lubricate our > rubbing pads, and to finalize, the keys are wooly mamoth ivory on spanish > cedar keys. Also made here, along with the entire action. We offer ivory > work to the industry as a side note. the piano is called "the passionata", > which means the passion. (the passion of Christ) . The nameboard is inlaid > birdseye maple , with the letters inlaid out of amboyna, and perfled in > ebony wood. outward art is 24kt gold. > > Enjoy the pics. > God bless, > Mark Perry > www.carvedpianoparts.com > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail® has a new way to see what's up with your friends. Check it out.<http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/WhatsNew?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_WhatsNew1_052009> > -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090527/6d57b370/attachment.htm>
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