One person I knew, took off the damaged veneer, and covered the whole piano, in the woodgrain, arborite. He did a really good job. He was one of those perfectionist types. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Carey" <mcpiano at videotron.ca> To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:00 PM Subject: RE : DIY Ingenuity funny repair > 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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