Thanks for the inquiry... I hope to have audio soon! I am scheduled to hire a recording studio to set up and cut a cd in a couple of months. As for the plate, what a project this was! It is a stacked weldment of advanced high strength steel, bonded with carbon fiber panels, and a flexible resin matrix to hold the decorative carving on. The flexible resin is time tested succesfully in salt water for over 55 years. This plate will not absorb near the flexing, and this is expected to last almost 200 years. (I'll be gone by then). anyway, it comes in at 1/3 the weight of a standard 9' plate, with higher stiffness, and nearly the exact yield strength. Fatigue properties will also be good on this design. All fitted steel parts are tabbed and notched to mechanically fit together prior to welding, so that stress is not on welds, but shear strength of the steel itself. It took my shop over 1,000 hours to produce this plate. I will release more information at some point soon. God Bless, Mark PErry Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:35:07 -0500 From: formsma at gmail.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Piano Built completely in Virginia-pics Enjoyed looking at the pictures, Mark. You have audio? I'd like to hear more about the plate, if you have time. -- JF On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, perrys piano restorations <perrymark at hotmail.com> wrote: Hello All, I thought I would take a few moments to update everyone on the piano my shop is building from scratch! The pictures show a general shot of the case before we shaped the front, the decal which is hand gilt in 24kt gold, the piano plate (not cast iron, rather, advanced high strength steel weldment made down the road from my shop), the under-side of the piano. To re-cap quickly, the underside shows primative art from the catacombs of Rome, with a grape vine pattern interconnecting it all. The Plate has passion flowers, angels, and a scroll from the book of revelation. The hand gilt decal is layered gold leaf, and show a boy sitting with a lion, lamb, etc.... and the holy spirit above with two angels. The inside of the rim is olive wood from the middle east, and the outside is amboyna burl. (not as red in real life.) the finish is french polish, in which we used frankinsense and muhr as an addative to the shellac. We used holy oil from Jerusalem to lubricate our rubbing pads, and to finalize, the keys are wooly mamoth ivory on spanish cedar keys. Also made here, along with the entire action. We offer ivory work to the industry as a side note. the piano is called "the passionata", which means the passion. (the passion of Christ) . The nameboard is inlaid birdseye maple , with the letters inlaid out of amboyna, and perfled in ebony wood. outward art is 24kt gold. Enjoy the pics. God bless, Mark Perry www.carvedpianoparts.com Hotmail® has a new way to see what's up with your friends. Check it out. -- JF _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090528/8df807d9/attachment-0001.htm>
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