Del, Thank you for your response! I appreciate your experience here. You've answered my most pressing question in that it most likely came this way from the factory. That's too bad. I will communicate this to both piano owners and see if I can get some results from the glide bolt. Thanks again for everyone's help! Greg P.S. I wonder how many of these I've encountered before and never identified. At 02:33 PM 9/17/2005, you wrote: > > >| -----Original Message----- >| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org >| [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan Kline >| Sent: September 16, 2005 7:38 PM >| To: Pianotech >| Subject: Re: Ok, This is weird >| >| If the plate of the Henry F. Miller actually did warp (which >| seems awfully strange) you perhaps can still save the piano by >| taking a jack plane and removing some of the pinblock in the >| middle, till the action clears with the glide bolts set conservatively. >| >| Oh, have FUN ... >| >| Susan > >Actually, no, this is not strange at all. Though the warping would >probably have >happened at the time the plate was cast. It is fairly common to find plates >warped across the tuning pin panel as a result of uneven cooling. The >usual fix >would be to put a reverse warp in the pattern. It sometimes took a while for >foundries to get this just right but in the meantime the piano makers >often went >right on building pianos. > >It is odd to find it blocking the removal of the action, however. Warped >plates >look a little weird but they are usually stable. Before condemning either the >piano or the plate I'd want to look for other reasons why the action doesn't >want to come out. Like action glides, a warped keybed, etc. > >Del > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Greg Newell Greg's piano Forté mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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