Herr Torella, At 10:54 11/20/98 -0500, you wrote: >Bummer. I think you're going to have to resort to removing a few lag screws to find that little bugger. If there's enough room between the plate and rim, you *may* be able to lift the plate and give it a little bit of a right turn to lift the strings off of the bridgepins....no, wait! I guess that might not be such a good idea. :-) Real bad... The bass strut has always worried me, and torquing the plate could be disastrous. The bass strut bows toward the rim >1/2". I've been expecting to find it imploded for the last 17 years, but the damned thing is about the most stable instrument on campus. >How about a restring? It probably needs one, anyhow. Probably true, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it- right? Very powerful instrument. Besides, if I restring it, I'll probably wind up losing more of those suckers. Maybe I'll just make a replacement out of a chunk of grenadillo. I'll get a crew to upend it next week before they leave for turkey day. Conrad Hoffsommer - hoffsoco@luther.edu Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) of Biopowered Digitally Activated Tone Generation Systems "If you have to plug it in, or you can't watch how it works, I don't work on it."
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