[pianotech] Felternator

[Paul Williams]

It kind of looks like a gauntlet for Ninja fleas!  It's pretty cool
looking, but I don't think I would touch a hammer with it.
Paul


On 11/13/12 7:37 AM, "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

>On 11/13/2012 6:23 AM, David Boyce wrote:
>> That's a fantastic thing!  Even if it does no good for anything in a
>> piano, it *ought* to exist, just by virtue of its sheer ugly beauty!
>
>It is impressive. From what the last owner told me, it's now well over
>50 years old, and is indeed a felt resurrector. Back then hardly anyone
>replaced anything but those old cheese flavored bridle straps, and
>pretty much nothing was considered to be too much trouble to try to milk
>more time out of worn out materials. But then 50 years ago, those
>materials weren't as worn out and it might have done something useful.
>
>The thought has occurred to me that if I was going to use it, I might
>want a handle of some sort to get it a bit farther away from the
>endangered phalanges. But then I notice a pair of holes in the brass
>sides, and wonder if it might not have had a clip on handle originally.
>
>Shop made tools are always interesting. I wish I could talk to the
>builder (Lefty).
>Ron N
>