Hi Joe and all: Okay, instead of "baby grand" lets just call it a "small-grand-with-really-short-and-heavy-lower-base-strings-with-more-inharm onicity-than-a-lot-of-spinets-that-looks nice-in-a-corner-and-DOES-HAVE-a-true-repetition-spring-and-gravity-assisted -action-with-true-una-corda-and-real-sostenuto-that-I-happen-to-have-just-bo ught-and-really-like." (I'm refinishing it and doing lotsa work. Geo. Steck, 1921) Yes it's the Kimball (Francis Bacon, et al) style molded-in-the-shank kinda knuckle--I just echoed the "pearl drop" shape thing 'cause that's what good 'ol WimBlees called them in a note to me. What is meaning of "IMHO"? Thanks, as always, for tips and suggestions. The knuckles may not be pearls, but you are a gem. (As Pogo would have said: "Oog") Alan Barnard Salem, MO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 10:26 PM Subject: Recommendations from experience, please/Alan R. Barnard > Alan, > My recommendation for a Chickering would be Ronsen, (w/the Euro Felt), it > would be very close to what was there originally. > Baldwin needs a harder hammer than Isaacs, IMHO. > As for the "Baby Grand", (Gawd I hate that term), I would suggest Abel, it's > a nice compromise. Not too hard, not too soft. > BTW "Pearls" are round, unless you are talking about River Pearls, (don't > even think it!). So what kind, exactly, are these Knuckles? Are you > referring to the knuckle that is built into the shank, by any chance? If so, > a good term would be "Kimball" style knuckles, as they used to use a lot of > those way back when Jack was middle aged. (hehehe) > Best Regards, > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) > > We must first understand where we've been before we can tell > where we're going. Squares are part of the equation.<G> >
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