MH BB Pinblock/Stretcher Definition

[Jack Houweling]

Hi Andre',

Long time no hear.........When you lift the fallboard it touches the strecher.  Here are other names used for this part you might know.    Frontal bar: front bar (Pratt, Read & Co.) ; front rail (Baldwin, Schimmel) ; front beam;
upper beam (Kawai, Yamaha) ; stretcher (Jellen, Caskey); stiffener bar (Defebaugh); cornice (Steinway); bellyman strip.

Cheers,
Jack Houweling
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: andre oorebeek 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:24 PM
  Subject: Re: MH BB Pinblock/Stretcher Definition


  Thank you for your response David.
  However, I still don't know what it means, because I don't know what you mean by "cornice".
  Do you mean the wooden part one looks at which is situated in front of the pinblock?




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  On Aug 3, 2008, at 5:11 AM, David G. Hughes, RPT wrote:



    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "andre oorebeek" <oorebeek at planet.nl>
    To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
    Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:04 PM
    Subject: Re: MH BB Pinblock


    > Being a foreigner (ferengi) I would like to know what you guys mean  
    > with "stretcher"?
    > 
    > OOR

    Hello Andre',

        In this country we refer to the cornice as the "stretcher" because it spans or stretches from one side of the case to the other.

        Dave Hughes, RPT




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