Detuning bass strings was Re: loose bridge pins

[David Love]

Don't try this at home kids.


David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>; Paul Tizzard <ptizzard@mweb.co.za>
> Date: 2/3/2003 7:19:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Detuning bass strings was Re: loose bridge pins
>
> Hi Paul,
> A few years back I decided to try an implosion of a piano that was
> unrepairable.
> With the piano almost at pitch, I took
> OUT All of the screws holding the plate! Nothing happened! I then took an
> eight pound sledge and began to give several good wacks to various struts
> and thin spots that were not covered by strings and still nothing! I never
> did get the critter to go! So to me  if a plate is going to go there must
be
> some weakness already thereI must have beat on that plate for 5 minutes,
go
> figure.
> Joe Goss
> imatunr@srvinet.com
> www.mothergoosetools.com