Hi Tom, the camel scene is from an authentic 19th
century weave program and is very appropriate to this
pianos' case style.
Do you ever have anything nice to say???
Thump
--- Tom Driscoll <tomtuner@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Subject: Replacing upright panels with speaker
> cloth.
>
> Hi Terry,
> Talkin 'bout yo' Mason ??? Doesn't it have a
> nice
> panel held in by wooden swivel clips that you can
> remove, allowing for the presence of a fretwork
> panel
> down there ( up top, too ) for child/drunk free
> environments??? Mine did. As a mostly
> acoustically-friendly alternative to cheesy looking,
> modern speaker grill cloth, I sometimes put Jacquard
> loom material in these spaces, which comes from my
> local Hancock Fabric store in a variety of reeally
> neat, authentic picture weaves from the 19th century
> that match the case style of the piano in question.
> For example, for my Egyptian Revival ebonized Knabe,
> I
> envision placing a scene of camels marching past the
> pyramids of Giza that I saw there recently. But I'd
> better buy is now, as these are limited production
> runs which are only dragged out of the vault
> periodically.
> This is also great when the original fretwork
> is
> damaged beyond repair, of missing entirely.
> Thump
>
>
> Gordon,
> Camels marching past the pyramids? And you call
> speaker cloth tacky?
> I guess that's why they make chocolate AND
> vanilla.<G>
> Tom -freezing @ 4 degrees F. -Driscoll
>
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