Norm, I have also worked on Linder pianos with plastic keys. If your Thomas were one of those, you would be asking where to get those funny parts that hold the completely plastic keys to the aluminum keyframe. They were made by Rippen in Ireland, and I doubt that many of them are playing anymore. My database shows two Thomas consoles I have serviced, both built in 1967. The one I tuned last year was not awful, but I don't know if it had an aluminum plate. One thing I can tell you about aluminum plates is that temperature changes make them expand and contract a lot. If the piano is subjected to changes that many people might consider normal, the tuning can fall apart in no time. The Pierce Atlas shows that Thomas Organ was owned by Whirlpool who stopped production in 1982. Then the trademark was sold to Plastishim Corp in 1989. Like so many brands, this name was built in many different factories to different quality standards over the years. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090410/856f9b52/attachment.html>
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