Making the brass name plates for player pianos is very tedious.  The
easiest way to make them is first get the artwork in very black and very
white.  I them photocopy them onto a special clear acetate that is made
so you can iron the image onto brass.  Now paint the back side of the
brass.  Now drop the brass in a brass etching solution.

Go to your local electronic supply house and tell them you want to make
printed circuit boards.  It's the same principle.  Or get silk-screens
made for the best looking and most detail.  The iron-on's work fairly
well and I made quite a few plates this way for ones that were missing
from my coin pianos.

* Do it outdoors! *  Not in your wife's stainless steel kitchen sink, as
it will also etch a nice pattern in it that I am still hearing about!

I buy most of the chemicals from Kepro at 1-800-325-3878.  The clear
acetate (?) comes from the back of a electronics magazine, and when I
find the name again I will post if anyone cares.  The black background is
plated, not painted, although this has been covered in a previous Digest.

Don Teach
Shreveport Music Co
1610 E. Bert Kouns
Shreveport,  LA  71105
dat-smc@juno.com

P.S.  I found one name for the clear sheets: Techniks Inc.,  tel
908-788-8249.  20 sheets for 30 dollars.  I hope someone besides myself
has the fun I had with it.