Fred's keyboard and action
The keyboard. Current project is to replace rockers with buttons and capstains.
05032006102 		Setting capstain position using a wippen very close to the final (Kawai) wippens.
05032006103 		Here you have an existing let-off button compared to the new position.
05032006104 		The new drill press. For capstains and hammer boring.
05032006106 		emoving the bump in the wippen rail.
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I'll make the buttons out of these nice pieces of maple that Steinway sent us.
06032006111 		can only clamp nine keys at a time. 9x10=88
07032006113 		the keys are separated by a paddle-pop stick. The button here is kept in place by nails, as it tends to wander under the clamp. It's years since I last did this. Later I rmembered the way to do it quickly.
07032006114 		Put the keys on a block of wood...
07032006114a 		Three pencil lines drawn along the keys. The left-most line is where the button should end. The other lines related to the capstains.
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A clamp is placed across the 9 keys in line with the pencil line. The piece of wood (aka the flitch) can be positions against the jaws of the clamp.
07032006118 		t's glued and clamped.
07032006119 		Some smaller clamps are added. Meanwhile I've been sawing the dried ones to separate them, and then I use my nice new bench sander to shape them. More photos on this tomorrow I hope.
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