<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Velum Source - Old European Square Piano</title></head><body> <div>At 10:06 am -0800 14/2/07, Jurgen Goering wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1">n the past I haveI stocked velum for vintage pianos.  One common use is in the back action of Blüthner grands, built later than one might expect.  I don't know how late this technique was used, but certainly to 1910, and perhaps later.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="-1">I am out of the extra thin velum needed for this purpose and I am looking for a new source.  Thicker velum  of 0.4 or 0.7 mm (.010 - .030") is fairly common for harpsichord soundboard rosettes, but it is too stiff for use in action parts.</font></blockquote> <div><font size="-1"><br></font></div> <div><font size="-1">Baumgärtel supply it in 0.3mm and 0.7mm.  They advertise the 0.7 for Blüthner damper bodies</font> and I haven't got one accessible at the moment but I think the 0.3 would be the proper thickness for this and is what I used on the last set I did last year.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I have also located a supplier on eBay for morocco-type leather, very reasonably priced, used for the wing-type hinge on Kirkman (as below) dampers etc.  Let me know if your interested and I'll look up the id.</div> <div><br></div> <div>JD</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div align="center"><img src="cid:p0624080dc1f95cdd2e22@[10.0.0.1].1.0"></div> </body> </html>