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The BBC has done a small documentary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002536j

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He tried a deep voicing first. Or if they're really harsh you could do steam voicing A lot cheaper.

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Bentley Pianos made Zenders from c1984, they put the serial numbers on the top right above the tuning pins. 1984 numbers started at 69001

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Able also do a recovering service. You just need to send hammers away to them a lot easier than putting new heads on if you've never done it before. Are you putting a light or heavy hammer on if you put too heavy a hammer on it will bugger up the inertia too light and won't have the power. You can a...

The serial number, if there is one, may be on the soundboard or on the keybed or the keys; quite often, retailers used to remove them if they weren't stamped in. Cambridge & Co. was established in 1902. in NY however the one you have is a stencil piano so probably won't have a serial number. The...

All hammers should be set so they kill seventh harmonic that can vary, just fractionally on the same model depending how the bridges have been carved. Modern pianos do tend to be cut with CC Machines but Pianos from the 70s and 80s were hand-carved. So setting the hammer height was rule of thumb not...

Play the notes chromatically open down and harder.
On a lot of 70s Pianos the change over from the steels to the base is very difficult to hide quite often the soundboard crown is going in that area.

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Can you post a video so we can see and hear the problem

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Did You Wash Your Father's Shirt" or "John Doherty's"
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Knauss sn 9705= c1900 and sn 13955 = 1905

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That's an "{how long is a piece of string " questions. A lot depends on the state of the pianos vasnear, type of woodr. Is the Polish polyester,satin finish or is it French polish or Open grain If it's a grand piano and you want it polyester in generally look at £100 per foot So if you've ...

It sounds an interesting project. The Lifesavers work on two heaters principal big heater to dry out and a little heater with cloths over it to draw the moisture A control unit you slide along the big heater to state what you want, more moisture or less

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You could go the old-school route, with a bucket of water inside a container, at least a litre.

Or fit a lifesaver. You said the piano is in the studio is that a studio full of electronics if so then dryness will be your problem.

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Most manufacturers recommend between 40 and 65, but good luck achieving that in the UK. Most homes in the north of England tend to be 55 to 80

The more consistent the room humidity is, the longer the piano will stay in tune

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Sorry no only got the standard ones

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It's one of 3 things: the springs are grating on the dumper bodies, But the dump lift rail brackets in the bass section is creaking. or it's a simple fix: the pedal push rod is grating in the dumper lift rail. I'm sorry but the answer from Yamaha is a copout. Both can be fixed by your tuner. Barrie

David Martin is retired. He did have a company called Marwood, but he doesn't keep stocks of old langer parts after he closed Marwood. I will have a look in my workshop the weekend to see if I can dig some out for you I might even have a full set. Your other alternative would be to contact some of t...

The super glue is placed around the metal stem where it enters the woodt, not at the capstan part. As the capstones of these keys are normally fired in via machine sometimes they are sent to deep. If the plastic capstan is loose then remove it and a few drops of superglue inside the hole but you mus...

On some there is a button on the front panel that would push it is just underneath the lid, on others you just push the panel and then lift the lid

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Your piano tuner will open the lid to tune it.

What makes, is it?

May I ask what you got for it?

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Try a couple of drops of superglue at the base of the pin.

You turn them out they are threaded into the wood, obviously the wood has shrunk and they become loose.

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If it's an older piano, it will kill it; A New piano will survive if a lifesaver is fitted; I do have clients who have Pianos in conservatories, but they don't stay in tune very long.

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Remove the capstan, put a few drops of superglue in the hole, give it time to dry, and then put the Back in. It should Be Nice and Tight.

If it's very loose I get a cocktail stick and put an off cut of the cloth in the hole after the drops of super glue,

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pianos on the 1998 wesite

this was the K15 1998 website

est 1888
Serial # 75959,= c 1911
address 136 St, New York. The company was controlled by Atlas Piano Company of Chicago, the name Ludwig & Co, was discontinued in 1953.

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I do have the pre-2000 websites but they are on a 5.5 MS floppy disk i'll see if I can get a 5.5 reader that will work with a Mac. As it would be handy to archive them.

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pre 2005
The Family Series

The Buckingham
The Cambridge 10
The Classic T
The Empire
The Oxford II
The Prestige
The Traditional
The Windsor 118

~after 2005

: Family range kemble

≈ it may be the Buckingham Piano pre 2005 88 Note, Height 114 (44 3/4") Depth 54 (21 1/4") Width 150 (59") American Walnut Satin Black Polyester Black Polyester & Chrome (photo) Natural Oak Satin They also did. but that was after 2005 Our new Concerto piano is a mid sized piano (1...

They will be Celulose. They tend to go brittle with age.

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Look at. CHESHIRE PIANOS Mark Goodwin PARK PIANOS IN ATHERTON To coin a phrase from the Americans, you're probably going to get more bang for your buck at Park Pianos in Addison. If you go to secondhand Yamaha or kawia, avoid Pianos made before 1980? They tend to have issues, and they are expensive ...

See, if you can find the serial number, Anton Petroff died in 1915, so I would say it's pre-1915. also, going off, it's a liar with big round legs.

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Standard piano key will lock it

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As part of my training, I spent eight weeks at Kembles and eight weeks at Bentlys in the 1970s. I also looked after the website from the early 1990s until the ptouction stopped in the UK. The codes at the bottom are the different modes, that Kemble made for Yamaha. The last one was the piano made by...

The case parts were sourced from the UK, the soundboard wood was sourced from Italy and made in the UK, the bridges came from Japan, the play mechanism and the keys came from Japan, the iron frame came from Japan, the wrest pins were Japanese, the steel strings came from Germany, and the covered str...

As This piano is going in a public place, you will need safety casters for that type of piano. Unless you fix it to a wall so it can't be moved. castor type https://www.piano-safety-castors.co.uk/castors/piano-safety-castors/safety-castors-small-modern-uprights-10.html You may consider getting your ...

The only record I have is that they obtained a patent in 1890 for an extended soundboard. The address is Belmont Street, London.

Bill may have more info.

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Brewtree25 wrote: ↑22 Jun 2024, 20:58
Barrie Heaton wrote: ↑31 May 2008, 18:30 In 1885 the numbers were 10000 and in 1890 it was 16546 so your piano was between those dates according to the published dates

Barrie,
I have a Camp & company Chicago piano 13998, what's the year on it?

According to pierce that serial number would date it at c1889

Nights used British piano actions; your local tuner will advise on tuning, and if the piano needs servicing, it probably will looking at it.

It's a standard 47 mim blow, 10 mm depth of touch, 15 mm checking, and 2mm set off. He/she will understand that.

55335, = c1975

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Secondhand pianos are very difficult to comment on without seeing them it's an awful lot of variables. On paper, the U3 should be a better piano because of the longer bass strings, but the condition of the strings determines its performance. One thing you should be asking the retailers has the repet...

It always amazes me how little value is put on local musicians, particularly pubs. You can add yourself to the UK Pianos page as an entertainer if you wish, Bill. https://www.piano-tuners.org/members/user_account_add.php?from=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGlhbm8tdHVuZXJzLm9yZy9tZW1iZXJzL3VzZXJfb3JkZXJzX2FkZF9saX...

Before you go down the expense of humidity control systems, I will check the room's humidity first. The sticky notes you had may have come from its previous environment. You said you had someone clicking sounds from wearing of the felt from the pitch move is this felt behind the jacks if so, that's ...

I have seen them with square outriggers, generally used for putting tuning tools and stuff like that in. However, if you look at the keys, the artist has either not bothered to copy them properly or it's an unusual keyboard, maybe a quartertone or a piano with flats and sharps. Square Pianos were ve...

No, you should not have a piano tuned before you move it. Moving the piano puts the piano out of tune; it changes the environment the piano is in. When a piano is moved, you should leave it for four weeks before you get it, dude. It always makes me laugh when people say oh, we bought the piano last ...

There is very little known about them. I believe Bill Kibby may have some extra insight. I think they were made by a shop in the north of England and given a German name, so they sound more expensive. As Chris has already pointed out, they are not listed in any of the main reference books, even as s...

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