key doublets

[Ted Sambell]

Newton,
I could not agree more; that piano parts should be named, and right down to
the smallest part. I do not see why it couldn't be simply called the
backcheck block. I think 'tenon' would be confusing as in 'mortise and
tenon'. The book on Nomenclature was excellent, but is perhaps due for a
2nd. edition.
A few years back I was gently taken to task for criticizing the term
'kickboard' as being amatuerish, it being pointed out that there were
prominent names in the piano industry who used it. For me it conjures up the
notion that this is something to be kicked.
There are many pianos for which this is an attractive idea of course;
perhaps the manufacturors who use the term know their own products best.

Ted Sambell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@optonline.net>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: key doublets


> > In most parts-naming diagrams it is just treated as part of the key.
>
> THis is not good enough.  Every part in a piano has a name.  You cannot
> teach good piano technology without names for things.
>
> Since I was a pup, long and long ago, the hard wood piece the backcheck
> is mounted into a grand piano key has been called a Tenon.
>
> Newton
>