[CAUT] Deskframe Felt

[Norman Cantrell]

Paul

Another option is to use suede leather and cut strips of the appropriate size.  
I buy full skins at Tandy Leather/The Leather Factory.  Usually I purchase skins 
in earth tones and gray but occasionally there are skins of black available.  To 
attach it to the music desk clean down to bare wood and use hide glue or fish 
glue (longer set time).   As far as the replacement felt for the ends of the 
music desk I am using a lot of billiard cloth these days.  It comes in a variety 
of colors and is slightly thinner than most of the thin key bushing cloth.  I 
get it from a billiard supply store and usually purchase the remnants of bolts 
that are too small to cover a full pool table.  The dye lots don't always match 
from one bolt to the next and the billiard guys are stuck with cloth that is 
unusable for them but is more than adequate for us technicians.  I've gotten 
some very good deals on quite a bit of cloth this way.  It is also good for 
understring felt and string braid when you want all the colors to match.

Regards

Norman Cantrell, RPT




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From: "Paul Milesi, RPT" <paul at pmpiano.com>
To: PTG CAUT List <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 10:17:08 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Deskframe Felt

Can anyone recommend a good felt to replace the messy, disintegrating stuff
that Young Chang used for deskframes on 12-year-old Weber grands?  We've got
four of them, and they're making a mess.

A few months back, I had ordered some Steinway deskframe felt, hoping to use
that.  Nice, but it's not long enough.  I ended up replacing the stuff on
one piano with very cheap felt, and that was a mistake -- it already looks
like hell.

I happen to have a 1/4 yard of Schaff High Quality Key Bushing Cloth
#321-1/2 Bulk (Thin), and that looks like it might be good stuff.  Kind of
expensive, though, for this purpose.  Or is that what's needed to withstand
years of rubbing?  I was also wondering about some kind of re-stringing
felt, but not being a rebuilder, I'm not familiar with thicknesses, etc.
-- 
Paul Milesi, RPT
Staff Piano Technician
Howard University Department of Music
Washington, DC
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