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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks
Al<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Paul
C<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> RE: Old Style
Leather Buttons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>A search in the archives turned up this information:<br>
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<a href="https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/1998-January/000333.html">https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/1998-January/000333.html</a><br>
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We do this on the Steinway Player Grands, and any others that use the leather
buttons, and they look just like they left the factory.<br>
<br>
Al, the Player Piano Guy<br>
Chesapeake, Va<br>
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--- On <b>Wed, 6/25/08, Paul Chick <i><tune4u@fmwildblue.com></i></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>From: Paul Chick
<tune4u@fmwildblue.com><br>
Subject: RE: Old Style Leather Buttons<br>
To: ilvey@sbcglobal.net, "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 9:36 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Paul,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If you have an old one, I'd imagine you could punch the same diameter with
shoe leather and glue it into the existing hole? What is special
about the holes? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>David Ilvedson, RPT<br>
Pacifica, CA 94044<o:p></o:p></p>
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12pt;">Subject: Old Style Leather Buttons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>List
members:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>A
client wants the original leather buttons installed on his ebony grand.
They are glued into a specially shaped hole in the lid, etc. Wasn’t
there an article in the PTJ about how to make/replace these bumpers.
Some of them were lost in the veneer repair stages. I usually
fill the old holes and use a stem bumper that’s available through supply
houses. But he wants to stay as original as possible. Right now,
all I have is modified spade bits for the convex and concave profiles
to form the holes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Paul
C<o:p></o:p></p>
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style='color:#1F497D'>The shape that remains in the “bumper places,” have
crowned center with the edge recessed into the wood, I’m guessing the enhance
the “crown” shape of the bumper.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='color:#1F497D'>Paul C</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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