Plate Substitution

[Ron Nossaman]

>It has been tuned by two other RPT's recently. I tuned it yesterday and
>am going back
>to Charleston ( that's where the piano is-50 miles up the road) next
>week to see
>  how MY tuning fared. It was mostly unisons, the worst in the A-49 thru
>C-64 range.

Killer octave country. I'd check crown for sure there.


>One other thing I didn't mention in my first post is that I found a
>plate lag bolt,
>the one in the extreme right front that was not snugged down to the
>point that the flat washer
>and the lock washer both would spin.

Did the rebuilder mount the plate with the old lags (on dowels?) instead of 
the bolt suspension system designed for this plate?


>Should this project proceed, and while the board is out, do you see any
>benefit in modifying
>or adding to the bracing etc. Re-inventing the wheel so to speak.

If it was my project, I'd want to add bracing, cutoff and fish, new rib 
scale, soundboard, bridges, string scale with no wrapped trichords, and do 
something about that front duplex.


>I've
>already told the church
>that regardless of what else is going on they have a climate control
>problem they will have to address.

Good! I didn't realize this was a church from your first post.

Ron N