Has anyone an old hook for a grand lid old style ?
I've got the knob and bits but need the hook
Thanks
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- by vernon
- 20 Nov 2023, 13:22
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: grand lid hook
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1257
- by vernon
- 07 Aug 2023, 17:12
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: victorian grand desk
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1591
victorian grand desk
looking for old grand desk. Virtually any condition or size. I'll tailor it
Vernon K
Vernon K
- by vernon
- 07 Aug 2023, 17:08
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Broadwood barless grand
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2583
Re: Broadwood barless grand
Just solved it. It's unbeleivable.
You have to remove thr front legs¬
the securing countersunk screws are then exposed.Only on this one tho'. I've done several others with normal block bolts..The removal system has now been re-invented!
Vernon K
You have to remove thr front legs¬
the securing countersunk screws are then exposed.Only on this one tho'. I've done several others with normal block bolts..The removal system has now been re-invented!
Vernon K
- by vernon
- 07 Aug 2023, 16:56
- Forum: Idle Chitchat
- Topic: old grand desk
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1609
old grand desk
anyone got a victorian grand piano music desk complete.. Any size
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Vernon K
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Vernon K
- by vernon
- 03 Jun 2022, 22:18
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Broadwood barless grand
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2583
Broadwood barless grand
How do you get the action out!
no screws into blocks. no screws into lockrail -just four wood doweles. It maybe swollen in but has anyone got any tips. It's the first time in 70 years I've been beaten!
no screws into blocks. no screws into lockrail -just four wood doweles. It maybe swollen in but has anyone got any tips. It's the first time in 70 years I've been beaten!
- by vernon
- 28 Nov 2021, 22:00
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Buying used Samick upright
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2981
Re: Buying used Samick upright
If you ever need any parts you'll be lucky if they give you the time of day
- by vernon
- 18 Mar 2017, 20:50
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28785
Re: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
sorry to go back to "hammer rest" bit. On a grand it was always hammer rest to us. After all one rec-vered it with "hammer rest felt" Don't think Fletchers ever stocked " staccato rail felt."
- by vernon
- 09 Mar 2017, 14:15
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28785
Re: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
try turning up a COUPLE of the capstans in the middle of the keyboard so the hammers hover 1/8th " above the hammer rest and see if that cures the trouble. If it does do the lot!
If it does not improve things,turn the hammers back level with their companions and get out the drawing board
If it does not improve things,turn the hammers back level with their companions and get out the drawing board
- by vernon
- 08 Mar 2017, 19:48
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28785
Re: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
It's taken 81 years for me to learn that the hammer rest is called the"staccato rail." crikey as Boris would say
- by vernon
- 07 Mar 2017, 20:34
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28785
Re: ACTION NOISE BABY GRAND
Could be the hammers are resting ON the hammer rest. They should sit clear of it
- by vernon
- 06 Mar 2017, 22:00
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Quick upright hammer hardening?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12484
Re: Quick upright hammer hardening?
hair spray, nail varnish or stewed old celluloid key tops are all the same stuff basically. They should make it nice and bright.. My uncle likened the result to a Steinway tin bath full of old nails. I'm sure he exaggerated. He really didn't like steinways.
- by vernon
- 28 Feb 2017, 23:04
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: The "C" in front of Sauter, Bechstein
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17822
Re: The "C" in front of Sauter, Bechstein
In the 30s was C Bechstein London that were prone tp frame cracks. Best avoided
- by vernon
- 27 Feb 2017, 20:44
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Buying a second hand Knight K10
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13539
Re: Buying a second hand Knight K10
One cannot begin to give any sort of guide price for a piano without personally having inspected it. We are often asked for a "ball park figure" but the same answer still obtains.
- by vernon
- 26 Feb 2017, 21:07
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Buying a second hand Knight K10
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13539
Re: Buying a second hand Knight K10
too dear for that age
- by vernon
- 20 Feb 2017, 23:26
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Short sustained sound of Boston GP 193
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13326
Re: Short sustained sound of Boston GP 193
If there is a short sustain I cannot ascribe it to any of the reasons you suggest and I can't think that the work you have done can effect it.. It would suggest an inherent constructional defect. If the initiation of the string is achieved then logically the transference of the "sustain" t...
- by vernon
- 18 Feb 2017, 18:50
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: New Piano
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12926
Re: New Piano
If you wait two weeks,the piano of your choice may be sold!
- by vernon
- 02 Feb 2017, 19:49
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: New Piano
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12926
Re: New Piano
You are the customer and you tell the dealer what you want not the other way round(I.m a dealer!) Bear in mind the one from the box may not play exactly as the shop one does. You can also suggest the dealer gets a new one for you to choose,providing you contract to buy one of them. By the way they d...
- by vernon
- 31 Jan 2017, 21:49
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Buying my first piano!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 26268
Re: Buying my first piano!
You'll be happy with that piano I'm sure and I hope you found the advice on this Forum was of assistance.
- by vernon
- 25 Jan 2017, 21:29
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Out of tune lowest notes only
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17669
Re: Out of tune lowest notes only
Wherabouts are you so we can direct you to some sound advice?
- by vernon
- 19 Jan 2017, 23:13
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Buying my first piano!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 26268
Re: Buying my first piano!
Without knowing the condition of any of the pianos you mention I would say they are all grossly overpriced.
With your budget you go for new.
There is life beyond the Central Belt bubble of Scotland and I suggest you Google further north for a bargain!
Try Perth,Aberdeen and Inverness
With your budget you go for new.
There is life beyond the Central Belt bubble of Scotland and I suggest you Google further north for a bargain!
Try Perth,Aberdeen and Inverness
- by vernon
- 14 Jan 2017, 23:38
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Gebruder Sohne piano
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13201
Re: Gebruder Sohne piano
Gebrueder Soehne is a new one on me(keine Umlauten auf meine pc!). and not a piano I've met I think. I really feel it is needing very careful examination by an expert before parting with ANY money. A wide berth is indicated especially at the price mentioned.
- by vernon
- 13 Jan 2017, 23:19
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Gebruder Sohne piano
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13201
Re: Gebruder Sohne piano
I think someone is talking nonsense to you.Get hold of a reliable dealer to advise you.
I wouldnt part with more than £200 for a twenties piano unless it was super special. For that money you could get a decent modern Kawai if you looked carefully
I wouldnt part with more than £200 for a twenties piano unless it was super special. For that money you could get a decent modern Kawai if you looked carefully
- by vernon
- 12 Jan 2017, 23:32
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Buying advice: replacement upright piano
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15473
Re: Buying advice: replacement upright piano
Good modern s/h try a Fazer if you can find one. About £1200 Steinmayer new under £2000. Modern Kawai s/h if you can find one £2000 ish Yamahas are a minefield. Any E German s/h £700- There are a few to avoid but it's very subjective so you've got to find an honest dealer with a name to look after.t...
- by vernon
- 12 Jan 2017, 23:25
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Ajello piano
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11744
Re: Ajello piano
We used to buy Ajellos from Ajello in Manchester in the 1950-60s
I remember them as very good
I remember them as very good
- by vernon
- 05 Jan 2017, 19:22
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Henry Zender & Co. London
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22849
Re: Henry Zender & Co. London
the third black bolt head from the right goes where there was once a wrest pin hole. viz missing string- no wrest pin for it!. Obviously has had some drastic re-designing
- by vernon
- 30 Dec 2016, 17:53
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Click noise after key release...normal?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 19692
Re: Click noise after key release...normal?
If you have any sort of click then a competent technician should be able to pinpoint it on the spot. If the click is there with the action out then it's most likely not regulation. There is no definitive list of sources of clicks-- only experience!. If you can remove the click for 15 minutes by fluf...
- by vernon
- 13 Nov 2016, 23:36
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: remote control for sustaining peadl for disabled pianist
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12490
remote control for sustaining peadl for disabled pianist
I have a customer in a wheel chair who cannot operate the sustain.
Does anyone know of a commercially available remote system. I'm sure I can make one but something readily available would be better.
Does anyone know of a commercially available remote system. I'm sure I can make one but something readily available would be better.
- by vernon
- 31 Oct 2016, 22:39
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Frequencies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 30174
Re: Frequencies
It's because we do it all the time. We unconsciously disregard all the weird noises,overtones,buzzes etc that plague most pianos of all sorts and qualities.Some people are beset by noises that only they can hear. The tuner "hears" through all of these and often has to compromise with some ...
- by vernon
- 31 Oct 2016, 22:29
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Frequencies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 30174
Re: Frequencies
It's because we have been doing it for years and are almost unconciously able to filter out all the weird overtones,false notes and extraneous noises that inhabit all pianos of all qualities.Some people are plagued with overbearing noises that only they can hear.The tuner "hears" through a...
- by vernon
- 11 Oct 2016, 20:12
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano for grade 5 and above
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11842
Re: Piano for grade 5 and above
Always let the pianist decide whether she's 10 or twenty. She is going to play the piano, not the teacher,not mum not the tuner,not the salesman.
Keep your hand on the wallet and turn her loose on what you can reasonably afford.
Don't let the teacher have her finger in the pie!
Keep your hand on the wallet and turn her loose on what you can reasonably afford.
Don't let the teacher have her finger in the pie!
- by vernon
- 09 Sep 2016, 18:23
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: T Hammer or Tuning Lever Poll?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12009
Re: T Hammer or Tuning Lever Poll?
T hammers were for a different age. The clue is in the "hammer" bit. Try knocking in a pin with it nowadays. My dad,granddad and uncles all used T hammers up to the War. When new modern pianos started to creep in after. they all surreptitiously bought a lever. What an advance the star head...
- by vernon
- 22 Aug 2016, 19:22
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: New Acoustic Piano
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17542
Re: New Acoustic Piano
Colin Put me right. I thought the Kawais were all made in Japan save the K15 built in Indonesia and the K200,assembled in Indonesia. Anything wrong with Indonesia? My son and our japanese family were in Tokyo this summer and didn't elaborate on all these constructional subtleties. I thought the Yams...
- by vernon
- 22 Aug 2016, 19:20
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: New Acoustic Piano
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17542
Re: New Acoustic Piano
Colin Put me right. I thought the Kawais were all made in Japan save the K15 built in Indonesia and the K200,assembled in Indonesia. Anything wrong with Indonesia? My son and our japanese family were in Tokyo this summer and didn't elaborate on all these constructional subtleties. I thought the Yams...
- by vernon
- 17 Aug 2016, 22:58
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Frequencies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 30174
Re: Frequencies
sounds to e as though the regulation was duff when you got it. Double-blow is generally a symptom of shallow touch so after a year the touch should be deeper with use. Also, less responsive notes as you describe could be lost motion that WILL naturaly increase with use. You need a tech to put it in ...
- by vernon
- 16 Aug 2016, 21:45
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Frequencies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 30174
Re: Frequencies
You can't do any lasting harm touching up unisons, providing you have a proper lever and not a socket set.. However, don't fiddle with regulation. This is a complete trade that must be done in strict sequence otherwise each adjustment will adversely affect the previous one and you will rapidly send ...
- by vernon
- 16 Aug 2016, 10:09
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: automatic piano. retro fit available?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9482
automatic piano. retro fit available?
Does anybody do a retro fit kit for a grand?
What's the cheapest reliable new piano with it fitted?
What's the cheapest reliable new piano with it fitted?
- by vernon
- 15 Aug 2016, 18:41
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: My Grandmothers Brinsmead #53083
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25507
Re: My Grandmothers Brinsmead #53083
OK with me Bill.
If we now have two examples of Brinsmeads with prints then it is reasonable to assume they were feature of a line of Brinsmeads as no one would add them later just to Brinsmeads. Hein Moriarty?
If we now have two examples of Brinsmeads with prints then it is reasonable to assume they were feature of a line of Brinsmeads as no one would add them later just to Brinsmeads. Hein Moriarty?
- by vernon
- 12 Aug 2016, 21:45
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32277
Re: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
Colin old bass strings were certainly not hex core but just plain steel wire. Obviously you are a youngster and probably less than seventy years old! You will have come across old Bech and Bluthner bass strings that ere SOLDERED at the ends to stop them buzzing. I'm doing one at the present(1909 Blu...
- by vernon
- 12 Aug 2016, 21:38
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: My Grandmothers Brinsmead #53083
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25507
Re: My Grandmothers Brinsmead #53083
The picture on ours is; "A foretaste of Summer" by George Logan.(qv on Google) A woman reclining on a punt with a parasol and two swans in attendance.Very beautiful This is new to me. Are there any other examples of Brinsmeads putting actual pictures on the front panel? It seems new to our...
- by vernon
- 10 Aug 2016, 22:01
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: My Grandmothers Brinsmead #53083
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25507
Re: My Grandmothers Brinsmead #53083
My dad worked at Brinsmeads as did my uncle(Head rep.Liked a drink) and cousin around the 1900s. I have a picture taken from a centre panel of a Brinsmead in a similar style to the illustration.I know nothing more about it. It's a copy of a well known victorian print. I can't identify the one you sh...
- by vernon
- 08 Aug 2016, 22:04
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32277
Re: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
The string looks like an emergency "hexacore" that one cuts to measure. However, you're supposed to chose one as near to the original as possible. Also, you need to turn off the copper winding properly otherwise it will BUZZ
- by vernon
- 05 Aug 2016, 21:35
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32277
Re: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
the larger apparent string will let you know immediately if it has any concern---like you may not be able to tune the two together.
- by vernon
- 05 Aug 2016, 21:29
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: J.Claypole and Son
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10116
Re: J.Claypole and Son
re Baker=" if they worked back then can't they be tuned now? " unfortunately often not.
- by vernon
- 04 Aug 2016, 21:09
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32277
Re: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
As I tell all my slaves, the first job on removing keys is to re-number them so that when they all fall on the floor it doesn't take a day to sort them so two sets of numbers is usual tho'it helps if they add up to 85/88 It all looks pretty good and well looked after. BUT-- you must get a technician...
- by vernon
- 02 Aug 2016, 22:35
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Modern Spencer Upright Piano
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10270
Re: Date help/opinion please - Spencer Upright Piano
The idiosyncratic shape of the bottom of the sides looks very like a Zender as you observe Bill..I don't remember Spensers still being on the go in the 60s.
- by vernon
- 01 Aug 2016, 22:18
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32277
Re: Bluthner 1890s Upright Dampers
The grooved hammers are of no consequence.
The dampers appear to be too high though why they all seem in line is problematic.
Anyway, it is the job of a moment for a competent technician to crank them down a bit. I bet you will notice little difference tho'!
The dampers appear to be too high though why they all seem in line is problematic.
Anyway, it is the job of a moment for a competent technician to crank them down a bit. I bet you will notice little difference tho'!
- by vernon
- 28 Jul 2016, 20:59
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Ageing a Bentley piano
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11725
Re: Ageing a Bentley piano
I would confidently put this pre-war post war they started with the model with the grand fall, and the bottom door was angled in three pieces, only the middle of which came out,thus making it almost impossible to get at the pedal works.It had curved top corners before the vogue for "modernising...
- by vernon
- 26 Jul 2016, 18:41
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Need part(s) for 1900 Pleyel grand piano
- Replies: 31
- Views: 35406
Re: Need part(s) for 1900 Pleyel grand piano
there are other people watching with interest I can tell you-- with interest and some encouragement. As an old hand ,like Colin, I wouldn't have touched this with yours. However, as a project it is interesting and in the end you will find your Holy Grail. As a hobby it's probably cheaper than sailin...
- by vernon
- 16 Jul 2016, 20:01
- Forum: Piano History
- Topic: Broadwood bought at an auction
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17813
Re: Broadwood bought at an auction
That sounds like an acceptable result
- by vernon
- 14 Jul 2016, 20:59
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: anyone know about piano C. H. Bornkessel - Sangerhausen
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9556
Re: anyone know about piano C. H. Bornkessel - Sangerhausen
If it originally "held candleabra" then it will be pre 1918 war.
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