<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Re: Okay, what's yer guess?</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <style> P { MARGIN: 0px } </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div align="left"> <div align="left">Not without posting it somewhere else, which I don't know how to do. <img src="cid:eek.gif@39555.9585673032.679"/></div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">I don't think it would help, really. There are no parts or details that don't show pretty plainly here. The whippen/butts (little S&M there) are 1/4" thick and smooth sided, no features except holes for the flange pins (no raised bird-eyes) and the hammer shanks (3/16" in diameter), and the "bridle straps" which pass between the W/Bs (see S&M, above) and the flanges and are glued to the curved back of said W/Bs. You can see the weird little hammer moldings and the small, oddly-shaped hammers.</div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">Here are more little hints: The maker of these and similar instruments (many later models still around and in use) is actually quite famous and spent a great deal of time in hospitals. Tease, tease. Later models have hammers that are even less piano-like. </div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">I say, again, <img src="cid:eek.gif@39555.9585673032.679"/>.</div> <div align="left"><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/></div> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Barbara Richmond" <piano57@comcast.net> </piano57@comcast.net><br/>To: pianotuner@embarqmail.com, "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 4/17/2008 10:35:07 PM<br/>Subject: Re: Okay, what's yer guess?<br/><br/> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Could we have a bigger picture for a better look?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">br</font></div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #000000 2px solid; margin-right: 0px"> <div style="font: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: #e4e4e4; font: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="pianotuner@embarqmail.com" href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:53 PM</div> <div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Okay, what's yer guess?</div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font><br/></div> <div><img hspace="0" src="cid:little hammers.jpg@39555.9585673264.680" align="baseline" border="0"/></div> <div> </div> <div>Heads are 3/4" at their widest, 3/8" thick, round (no egg shape) at the crown. Notice the little bit of bridle strap material sticking out from the flange at the picture top? These tapes are connected to the dampers. (Yes they are, don't argue with me!) The whippen is the hammer butt and vice versa, no jacks, no escapement, one solid piece of wood. Key sticks are full-sized (well, like a spinet) conventional designed, three-rails, pins, felts, etc., but the "capstans" are just pieces of felt glued to the top rear of the key sticks. Key and hammer travel are conventional distances.</div> <div> </div> <div>Further hints: This is a 20th century instrument, not something from Mozart's day! Not a celeste, not a dulcimer, not a Nickelodeon or anything similar, not exactly a piano, either--though it is called a piano, has a sustain pedal. Not tuned in any conventional way, either.</div> <div> </div> <div>Fun one, eh? Anyone seen 'em? Bet Jack Wyatt knows  ...</div> <div> </div> <div>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </body> </html>