This is actually a rather good idea. I've seen it done several times with varying degrees of success. The best of them have been quite impressive. It requires a certain amount of ingenuity to select the appropriate keyboard-it has to fit well enough that it can be made to look "built-in"-and the installation has to be done with enough sophistication that the result looks "natural." But, when it all comes together properly it can look and sound pretty good. One of the problems with most keyboards is their chintzy speakers so the best installations have installed much better aftermarket drivers in the pedal board (for the bass and mid-range) and somewhere up above for the higher frequency drivers. These things can end up with sound pretty close to, if not better than, they had way back when. Certainly better than they would have had with the typical patch-up job they so often get. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Zeno Wood Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:12 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Plate Repair Unstring it, throw out all the keys/keyframe, and send it out for re-finishing. When it comes back, put in an 88-key electronic keyboard. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101201/dc420fe7/attachment.htm>
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