Hey Del! Wacko for sure, but fun. You'd be interested to know that the bass bridge carries 35 notes and that the lowest tenor notes are only 4 semitones down from mid C. It is on these 4 semitones (the lowest two of which are bi-chords) where the bridge hooks back, but not too severely. The lowest 8 or 9 lowest tenor notes are cantilevered, as is the entire bass. Of the 35 bass notes, 22 are singles. The soundboard panel, from what i can see at the nosebolt holes (3 of them), is far too thick for this little piano. No cut off bars, and the rib scale indicates no real thought --- all ribs equally spaced and are equally tall (deep) regardless of length. Yes, rescale, move the bridges a bit and maybe add a short tenor bridge (plenty of room for it), add cutoffs, rescale the ribs, have Dale and the Ronsen folks make up a secret, proprietary set of hammers. This kind of re-engineering is where the big money is in spinets. I have two concerns here: 1) such drastic surgery (especially removing the original tone-woods) might destroy the instrument's inherent beauty of tone thereby lessening its value, and 2) after all this work the piano will still have only two pedals --- I could never sell it ;-) As to "I really didn’t think there would be two of us….", I'm grinning as you surely know how profound and widespread your knowledge and influence has been. But as you mean to say that there may be only two of us crazy enough to re-engineer a lowly spinet, perhaps so ---- but when I actually do the work, there definitely will be one! Attached is a photo of the plate "stamp" clearing showing April 19, 1946. Photo is a bit fuzzy but clear enough; and what appears to be a crack in the plate is not. Hope all is well, and see ya soon at WESTPAC. Cheers! NG On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Delwin D Fandrich <del at fandrichpiano.com> wrote: > > Oh, please! This sounds like the kind of wacko thing I would do just to see what the result might be. In the process I’d probably move the bridges around, give it a new scale, put in a couple of soundboard cutoff bars and – well, you get the idea. I really didn’t think there would be two of us…. > > > > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Win Spinet Date Stamp.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 592103 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110129/c6dbfac1/attachment-0001.pdf>
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