When visiting the Petrof Piano Factory last year at the EuroTech conference, new grands had ebony caps in the high treble on their pianos as well. A. Bajada PTG Assoc. In a message dated 9/20/2010 6:37:38 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com writes: Will Truitt wrote: > Sauter is using horizontally laminated ebony in the top treble > section. To what effect? I have a whole pile of ebony veneers left over from other projects and have often wondered how they would work as a bridge cap. Or maybe even making a laminated hard maple cap with an ebony lamination as a topper. I guess I've thought that hard, harder and even harder is good for a bridge cap, but is there some point where the cap can get too hard? Terry Farrell PS: Thanks for the plug on the other thread!!! :-) On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:04 PM, William Truitt wrote: > Hi JD: > > The Delignit bridge capping material is straight from the Schaff > catalog. > It's densified beech, just like the pinblock material where the > densification comes from heat and pressure, but not as hard. Still > harder > than the maple though. I capped the whole bridge, bass and all of > the tenor > bridge. This was a cheap no name grand and a one time experiment. It > seemed to work fine, but it's just too butt ugly to want to use on a > good > grand. > > Sauter is using horizontally laminated ebony in the top treble > section. > > Will Truitt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100920/d382ffcc/attachment.htm>
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