Hi Jim I'm a big fan of 1890 to 1910 uprights. The glory days of post Victorian uprights. So many had three piece panels with cut outs in the front backed with a nice linnen cloth. SO much sound could exit forward. I have a gorgeous Hardman upright given to me by Carl Meyer In San Jose be fore he died. He said I know you'll fix it someday. And some day I will. Why not find a nice chip and dale pattern and trace it on the Rippen bottom panel and top music desk area,.... Get a jig saw and go to town. Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Jim 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: Mckeever, James I <mckeever at uwp.edu> To: caut at ptg.org <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 2:20 pm Subject: [CAUT] Upright tone openings Why aren’t there “tone openings” in mostuprights? I recall a very old spinet which had cloth-covered openings atthe sides of the music stand. What about the lower panel? Sound canget out of grands, but not uprights unless you raise the lid. When Ipractice on my fine Rippen “Concerto” model, I often remove thebottom panel. Of course, the tone is then fabulous. Comments, please! Jim McKeever -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110226/81f3ac4a/attachment.htm>
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