At 11:14 AM 10/3/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Some sort of metal capping would help. Unfortunately, this one only has >the screw holes up underneath pulled out. You can't just put a plug or >toothpicks in there either. It's a soft wood that just tears all to pieces. Oh, I finally woke up and realized which Baldwin music desks you were talking about -- grand, not upright. I had to deal with one which had be refitted with a big Lucite slab for a church -- held by the same two small holes -- so the choir director could see through it. It also needed help to stay on. I can't quite picture the rails on that music desk -- could one be changed or built up so that you could fit three or four honest hinges onto the folding part? One could also fit a 1" piece of brass (thick) down the sides at the back of the desk, folded over the edge, but by the time you'd routed a place for it and fitted it in, you could probably have done a different fix a couple of times over.
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