The best one I've seen is someone replaced keytops with Arborite material (you know the real hard countertop stuff). But they did select the white with gold dots (speckles ??). I can only imagine the amount of work that went into the trimming. Marcel Carey > -----Message d'origine----- > De : pianotech-bounces at ptg.org > [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] De la part de John Ross > Envoyé : 30 mars 2007 16:48 > À : Pianotech List > Objet : Re: DIY Ingenuity > > > I saw a repair to make a piano operational, when the hammer > flange was gone. > The person had inserted lollipop sticks on each side of the > hammer to guide > it. They were attached to the hammer rail. > Another was pieces of thread tied to the bridle straps, and > to the wire. A > real pain to remove, when replacing the bridle/ action tapes. > Broken shank repaired with a popsicle stick and duct tape, as > a splint. Nails hammered in alongside the pins, hoping to > make them tighter. A piece of coathanger wire, tied on to a > broken string, going through the > drilled out hole on the tuning pin. This was an amateur tuner > fix. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
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