Replacing upright panels with speaker cloth.

gordon stelter lclgcnp@yahoo.com
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:00:35 -0800 (PST)


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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