---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment >Hi John, > You have had good advice from Ron.N. A few things to > add. Buy a small wood carvers chisel, they work very nicely when > cleaning up bridge notches. Secondly it looks like a small gap behind the > centre string bridge pin, a wee drip of CA glue will clean up any > falseness on this string. Finally make sure the hammer fitting to the > string is correct. >Regards Roger > > >At 04:23 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote: >>Oh Wiser-than-I Ones, (of which there are multitudes!) >> >>I heard a "zinging" in the attack of a low tenor string on a customer's >>piano. She heard it, too, and didn't like it. (Turned out a little >>needling on the hammer at about 1 o'clock and 11 o'clock softened that >>attack nicely) Upon close inspection I notice an anomaly in the way the >>bridge was notched. It's the right string of the lowest plain string >>unison. I was wondering if I might elicit a few opinions about the looks >>of this. I've attached a photo -- I hope it comes through! >> >>The bridge isn't notched all the way across on that right-most pin. On >>the side that the string bears there is certainly a good notch, but to >>the right of that it's not. Seems like that would actually strengthen >>rather than weaken the pin's hold, but since it looks unusual I thought >>I'd ask. Extending upward from the un-notched edge there is a visible >>line. That's the border of the notching. It is not a crack. This is a >>fairly new piano, about 3 or 4 years old, a Knabe Studio Upright. >> >>Thanks, >> >>John Dorr >>Helena, MT >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d7/c8/a8/df/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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