>Greetings all! > >Minor problem w/1907 Chickering upright. Customer I would like to >keep for a long time has one of those let's-change-design-every-day >things which just started to break the brass hammer butt plates. >Unfortunately, it is the type which has a hole on the top for a >string loop for the auxiliary butt spring. >Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT Conrad, Have you checked out the possibility that one of the Schwander-type flanges with springs might work? You can get them with or without butt plates (Yamaha's come without and Young Changs with). If they are compatible, I would suggest replacing the entire set and be done with it. Good luck. Tom Seay (from the nation's newest desert resort, Austin, TX. We are about 7 inches behind in rainfall for the year) Tom Seay t.seay@mail.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin
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