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These are VCP’s Recessed Panel Spade Legs. Steinway used these Sketch 380 legs product-wide on models A-D from about 1910 until the ’40s. This detailed style has not been available to the trade from the original manufacturer for at least six decades.
The VCP legs have truly recessed panels on all facets and capital, and incorporate a pocket for the attaching cleat, a caster recess, and the locking cam wedge block on the backside. Either original Steinway or modern supply house casters may be employed.
We manufacture these legs for models A-D in solid maple, mahogany and walnut
. With these offerings, no faux-finishing is required of the rebuilder for natural-finish instruments.
• 22″ tall (nominal)
• Combined height of leg with standard 1¾” swivel caster and socket installed: 24″
$3026 maple
$3220 mahogany
$3350 Walnut
(price is for set of three)
$60 boxing fee plus shipping
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The VCP Keyslip is available in maple, mottled mahogany, walnut, and rosewood. All profiles including the thickness, height, ogee contour, and bottom bevel conform exactly to vintage Steinway specifications. Unlike the current-production overly large replacement keyslip available from S&S, this part fits vintage Steinways perfectly and looks right at home on the instrument. The VCP keyslip
is long enough for any model Steinway piano. The molding is provided without any of the necessary keybed anchor pin drilling or backside mortising at the cheek blocks – these operations are to be performed by the restorer, custom fit to the candidate piano.
Length: 56-1/8″
Height: 1-7/8″
Thickness: 5/8″
$196 maple
$265 mahogany
$280 walnut
$297 rosewood
$10 boxing fee plus shipping
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This is VCP’s Music Desk Frame Kit, pictured here in assembled Rounded-Front style in Brazilian rosewood. See the descriptions of our vintage Rounded-Front and Sketch 380 Square Scalloped End Panels for period-appropriate usage on your candidate piano.
The kit consists of four components: two spanning rails and two end panels. The rails tenon and dovetail into the end panels per original Steinway joinery design. The rebuilder trims the unit in width to fit the piano, and then rabbets 
the ends to accept the rim runners. Both tasks are easily performed before the kit is assembled.
VCP offers this kit in maple-for-ebony, mahogany, walnut, and Brazilian rosewood (Rounded-Front style only).
The Rounded-Front Kit (for “vintage” Steinways) is available in three widths: narrow, standard, and wide. Refer to the Music Desk End Panel product description(s) for a complete explanation.
• Narrow: 52″ wide by 12-1/2″ deep (for 85-note Steinways)
• Standard: 54″ wide by 13-1/2″ deep (for most 88-note Steinways)
• Wide: 56″ wide by 14-1/2″ deep (for 88-note C&D Steinways)
The Square Scalloped Kit (for “modern” Steinways) is available in the 56” wide configuration, suitable for Sketch 380 models S-D. The panels measure 10-5/16” wide by 11” deep.
All frame kits (end panels) are a nominal 1″ thick
$1104 round end kit in maple
$1234 round end kit in mahogany
$1276 round end kit in rosewood
$1133 square end kit in maple
$1263 square end kit in plain mahogany
$1289 square end kit in mottled mahogany
$1353 square end kit in walnut
$30 boxing fee plus shipping
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VCP’s Square Scalloped Music Desk Frame End Panels are designed to be used either with our spanning rails or the piano’s original rails. Steinway referred to this style as Sketch 380, the modern era case appearance spanning numerous decades of the 20th century. Models S-D were manufactured in the Sketch 380 style. We manufacture this part for models S-D, sold in pairs, in maple-for-ebony, mahogany and walnut.
9-1/8” wide by 11” deep by 1” (nominal) thick
$625 maple
$671 plain mahogany
$697 mottled mahogany
$719 walnut
$25 boxing fee plus shipping
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VCP’s Rounded-Front Music Desk Frame End Panels are designed to be used either with our spanning rails or the piano’s original rails. Steinway used this rounded-front design from the 1870’s until about 1920. We 
manufacture this part, sold in pairs, in maple-for-ebony, mahogany, and Brazilian rosewood.
VCP manufactures this product in three widths: narrow, standard, and wide. 85-note instruments use the narrow dimension, virtually all 88-note models A,B, and O employ the standard 
panel, and 88-note models C and D require the wide dimension. Please specify when ordering. If in doubt, please furnish a width dimension of the inside of the rim along with the piano’s model and serial number.
• Narrow: 8″ wide by 12-1/2″ long
• Standard: 9″ wide by 13-1/2″ long
• Wide: 10″ wide by 14-1/2″ long
All panels are a nominal 1″ thick
$596 maple
$642 mahogany
$676 Brazilian rosewood
$25 boxing fee plus shipping
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VCP’s Music Desk Frame Spanning Rails are to be used with either our Rounded-Front End Panels or our Square Scalloped End Panels, or they may be employed with the original Steinway end panels. Typically the rear rail glues in 
the mortises on end panels, the front rail screws in through the male dovetail from beneath. The detail of the veining in the front rail that supports the player’s sheet music is exquisite.
Note: The VCP Front Rail has been upgraded to include four hinge mortises. (Click on the above photo to view.) As Steinway discovered over time, the use of four hinges to attach the desk to the rail makes for a stronger assembly and deters sag in the rail. All VCP Front Rails 
now implement four hinge mortises. Please take this into consideration when ordering. Sold in pairs, we manufacture these vintage rails in maple-for-ebony, mahogany, walnut, and bubinga (for rosewood pianos).
• 36″ long (excluding tenon/dovetail)
$508 maple
$592 mahogany
$634 walnut
$600 rosewood (bubinga)
$25 boxing fee plus shipping
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This is VCP’s Arrow Point Sketch 380 Music Desk, so named for the detail in the upper corners. Steinway 
used this desk on their Sketch 380 style ebony, mahogany and walnut pianos from about 1910 until the 1940s. Though the current offering from Steinway resembles this product, it lacks the original arrow corners and overall crispness of the VCP product. We offer it in maple-for-ebony, mahogany and walnut. This desk fits our Desk Frame Kit or the piano’s original frame.
• 36″ wide by 10-1/2″ tall
$562 maple
$580 plain mahogany
$606 mottled mahogany
$628 walnut
$30 boxing fee plus shipping
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This is VCP’s “Scroll End” Music Desk, so named for the carved volutes in the lower corners. Steinway used this desk on their ebony and mahogany pianos
from the 1890s until about 1915. We offer it in mahogany (only); suitable for either natural or ebonized finishes. The desk fits our Desk Frame Kit or the piano’s original frame.
• 36″ wide by 11″ tall
$650 mahogany
$30 boxing fee plus shipping
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