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Nelson-Wiggen Decal Colors
By Don Teach

[ Monica Jones wrote in 130916 MMDigest:

> My biggest goal here is to be able to clean up the image and save
> it for later, since at some point I may need a new decal!  Having
> done that, it would also be nice to know what I have and if I can
> share it with others.

Several restorers of nickelodeon pianos have been working on having
the Nelson-Wiggen decal reproduced.  The first problem was getting
art work done for a water transfer type decal, as we all wanted to
make a decal that was as close as possible to the original.  We now
have the art work, done by a professional graphics artist.

We have talked with one old-time water decal manufacturer in the
USA only to learn that a minimum run of 100 decals is rather costly.
The decal is at least a four-color [printing] process plus the back
color to mount it on a piece of glass.

We are close to having these done and there is one small problem:
half of us think the primary background color is a green color and
the other half thinks it is blue.   What is your vote and why?

Don Teach - Shreveport Music Co
Shreveport, Louisiana

 [ Maybe it's green by reflected light but it becomes blue when the
 [ illumination is from behind.  This sort of color shift can happen
 [ with art glass so I suppose it can happen with a decal.  -- Robbie


(Message sent Wed 18 Sep 2013, 23:06:56 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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