[pianotech] organ pallet sticks

[Ron Nossaman]

A while back, I bought a package of large diameter bamboo barbeque 
skewers, thinking they looked to be about the right size for pump organ 
pallet sticks, or at least a heck of a lot closer than the 3/16" dowels 
sold for that purpose. This afternoon, I replaced the coupler buttons on 
the set, and a half dozen broken sticks. The diameter is very close, 
after some sorting and culling, so I think it'll work. I'd never seen 
coupler buttons like this, being just punched leather glued to the shank 
with burnt shellac. Drilling out appropriate diameter leather nuts 
replaced them fairly easily. They were originally glued to heavily 
graphited sticks, so they weren't too hard to break off.

So to whom it may annoy, a good skewering might be handy to some of you.

As you were,
Ron N