key doublets

[Newton Hunt]

Hi Ted,

Thank you for your post.

WHile working on the Nomenclature Book we, the committee requested
nomenclature lists from all the manufacturers.  A few were forth coming,
most were not.  We endeavored to get as many part names as we could then
sat down and worked out compromises for everything we could think of.

We made several unilateral decisions necessitated because of too many
names for the same thing.

It was a fun project but a real pain sometimes getting teeth out of
chickens.

I thought "kick panel" would have been an apt descriptive name but we
settled on "bottom panel" because it is a finished part as opposed to
"bottom board" which is more descriptive of the bottom board to which
the pedals are attached on an upright.  There was a sea of confusion out
there in the beginning.  The final file was about two inches thick with
scrawled notes all over them.

A revision may well be in order, the book is about 30 years old now.

Any volunteers?

		Newton

Ted Sambell wrote:
> 
> 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
> >