I once picked up an old pedal pumper player at a beach house shed that was literally sitting in the sand. It needed a new bottom. All the players I've bought and sold had hard wood bottoms painted flat black. I cut a piece of plywood that matched the bottom dimensions and fitted it to the bottom. Plywood can and does have interior holes, spaces, and more. When I put the pedals for the trapwork back on, guess where the screws lined up! You guessed correctly--right over interior unseen holes in the plywood. If you've got the maple, I'd use that and depending on the age and type of the piano, paint might work and definitely be easier than veneer. You might want some customer input on that. Jim Atlantic Player Piano -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110218/b23ab5e5/attachment-0001.htm>
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