• Music stand supports open lid

• Casewoods are the customers choice but I would suggest elm. oak, cherry, walnut, beech (these timbers vary very much in price and will affect the cost of the finished instrument)

• Casework is 1.2 cm thick with upper mouldings

• Stressed top surfaces and wrest planks are beech

• Sub structures are pine or fir basically in three layers of base frame, base board and a massive upper brace bar, hitch rails and a balance rail

• Keyboard is of lime

• Surfaces can be chosen by the customer but common surfaces are African Blackwood for the long and yew for the short keys

• The Keys are undercut and no balance weights are used

• The tangents are of sheet brass

• Balance pins are threaded brass

• Keytail guide pins are threaded brass

• Keytail bearings are leather

• Strings are iron in the treble, brass in midrange and overspun brass in bass

• Pitch preferably old, but can take modern

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