cross "B"east

Daniel Gurnee dgurnee@humboldt1.com
Fri, 02 May 2003 10:25:17 -0700


Not having seen anything from S&S on the cross strut; I believe my info came
from S&S that the cross strut is put in place and fitted after the piano is
strung at the factory implying it may be removed at any time that the
strings are still under tension.  Comments?

Dan Gurnee, RPT, retired HSU.




on 3/26/03 15:26PAM, Kent Swafford at kswafford@earthlink.net wrote:

> I'm working on a B; nothing is gonna be easy on this piano, it seems.
> 
> The problem at hand: I have the piano de-strung. I would like to remove
> the "removable" cross strut from the plate, but so far it won't budge.
> I have pulled _hard_. (Yes, I removed the bolts first.:)
> 
> So my question is, how hard can I safely pull to get the thing off? I
> have no doubt that the judicious application of a crow bar would do the
> trick -- but would it be safe?
> 
> The restringing of the piano _will_ be completed Saturday, cross piece
> on or cross piece off. Any ideas, great gurus?
> 
> Kent Swafford
> 
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