Okay, what's yer guess?

[Kerry]

Something's tickling my memory hairs.is it a celeste?

 

 

Kerry Kean

Kent, Ohio

 

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From: Alan Barnard [mailto:pianotuner at embarqmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:00 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Okay, what's yer guess?

 

Not without posting it somewhere else, which I don't know how to do. 

 

I don't think it would help, really. There are no parts or details that
don't show pretty plainly here. The whippen/butts (little S&M there) are
1/4" thick and smooth sided, no features except holes for the flange pins
(no raised bird-eyes) and the hammer shanks (3/16" in diameter), and the
"bridle straps" which pass between the W/Bs (see S&M, above) and the flanges
and are glued to the curved back of said W/Bs. You can see the weird little
hammer moldings and the small, oddly-shaped hammers.

 

Here are more little hints: The maker of these and similar instruments (many
later models still around and in use) is actually quite famous and spent a
great deal of time in hospitals. Tease, tease. Later models have hammers
that are even less piano-like. 

 

I say, again, .


Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

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Original message
From: "Barbara Richmond"  
To: pianotuner at embarqmail.com, "Pianotech List"  
Received: 4/17/2008 10:35:07 PM
Subject: Re: Okay, what's yer guess?

Could we have a bigger picture for a better look?

 

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----- Original Message ----- 

From: Alan <mailto:pianotuner at embarqmail.com>  Barnard 

To: pianotech at ptg.org 

Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:53 PM

Subject: Okay, what's yer guess?

 



 

Heads are 3/4" at their widest, 3/8" thick, round (no egg shape) at the
crown. Notice the little bit of bridle strap material sticking out from the
flange at the picture top? These tapes are connected to the dampers. (Yes
they are, don't argue with me!) The whippen is the hammer butt and vice
versa, no jacks, no escapement, one solid piece of wood. Key sticks are
full-sized (well, like a spinet) conventional designed, three-rails, pins,
felts, etc., but the "capstans" are just pieces of felt glued to the top
rear of the key sticks. Key and hammer travel are conventional distances.

 

Further hints: This is a 20th century instrument, not something from
Mozart's day! Not a celeste, not a dulcimer, not a Nickelodeon or anything
similar, not exactly a piano, either--though it is called a piano, has a
sustain pedal. Not tuned in any conventional way, either.

 

Fun one, eh? Anyone seen 'em? Bet Jack Wyatt knows  ...

 

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

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