Wapin Bridge

[Roy Peters]

Owen and list.

I just did my first Wapin bridge, and delivered the piano about a week ago.  It
was on a Baldwin C built in 1907.  I  rebuilt and refinished the piano.  The
soundboard was repaired and shimmed, not  replaced.    I used the plugging
method rather than recapping the bridge.   Basically, you pull out the old
bridge pins, then plug the holes and redrill to install Wapin.   In this
situation, when I already had the plate out of the piano and was going to repin
and renotch the bridge anyways, it really wasn't that much extra work.   Well
worth the results.  This piano had more brightness and sustain, especially in
the treble,  than I expected.  At this point, I am thinking of adding Wapin to
all of my rebuilds.  It will just be a standard thing I do when I rebuild a
piano.

Roy Peters
Cincinnati, Ohio



Owen J Greyling, RPT wrote:

> List,
>
> Anybody out there using the Wapin configuration of bridge recapping articled
> in the Jan 99 PTG Journal?
>
> Owen