Richard Moody wrote: > > I recently tuned a Janssen console 116331 (1952) and noticeced a split in > some parts of the pin block joining or near the frame, looking down from > the top. I also noticed that the top bolts seemed to go all the way > through, so the traditional repair of drilling these all the way through > is moot. It looks like a carrage bold was used, and the head came in from > the back, and the nut and a cap nut put in front. (the tuning pin side). > I am wondering if this was from the factory. Probably. I care for a handful of these and that's the way they are. But I never saw pulling apart there, and used to wonder why ALL piano manufacturers don't put the bolts the whole way through. You've got a puzzler there! > By coincedence the next week I tuned an Everett console. also from the > 50's and noticed the same thing. The top plate bolts completely through > with the threaded end on the tuning pin side. . I had never seen this on > an Everett, and I used to tune for a dealer who sold them, perhaps it is > something I never noticed. The block to frame seams were solid in this > case. I brought this up on the list maybe two months ago. I have a '70s studio Everett which has developed a separation, but the bolts are not the whole way through. I was informed earlier they were, and observed this to be so since then. Clyde Hollinger, RPT Lititz, PA
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