Michael, Put a piece of masking tape underneath it before your re-string the piano. The tension of the strings will hold it in place after the stringing is completed. best, Greg Newell At 02:10 PM 7/31/2005, you wrote: >Hello all >This close-up shows a metal shim which fell out of a place between the >"dam" and the underside "nose" of the plate on my S&S 'A' . I stood it on >the soundboard near its normal location. I can only hazzard its use as >being intended to convey the pressure of the fully strung piano from the >web to the dam and sound board. Any other ideas? It is about 1/4" thick. >You can see the gap into which it fits. It was nor glued in place - should >it be? I doubt it as the glue would give a deadness and tend to be elastic >in situ. >Now all the strings are off, the soundboard gives a healthy bass "thwummm" >of G# 0 @ A=431 when tapped with a fingers on the bass bridge. Having >vacuumed off all the debris of ninety years I am about to gently wash the >plate and soundboard with a damp cloth from a bowl of water with washing >up liquid in. >Regards from a Sunday afternoon where the village church bells have just >finished pealing. >Michael G.(UK) > >Download Photoshop(R) Album 2.0 Starter Edition free to create your own >photo slideshows! ><http://www.adobe.com/getstarteredition>http://www.adobe.com/getstarteredition > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Greg Newell Greg's piano Forté mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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