This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I am just finishing a full restoration on a 1893 Knabe 57" upright. Why = the tuning instability? This model Knabe is VERY suseptible to temp and = humidity change. Only because of personal reasons did I take on this = job. In other words it's a freebe for the steaming historic Liberty = museum ship, the S.S. John W. Brown. Both ship and piano built in = Baltimore. The 3/4 plate flange is tightly wedged beneath the pin = block, and is wraped under the piano bottom and screwed there. I think = this plate and S.B. configuration does not allow for much movement due = to climatic change. I discovered this piano in a wharehouse on a = Baltimore dock next to the ship. It had been there since WW II covered = with what pidgens do. The tuning was still near 435 and the pins were = tight. However the SB was split pulling the ribs loose. One should note = that this era Knabe used #1 by only 2" tuning pins, take care what size = you re-install. We have replaced the sound board and the bass pin = block. The bridges were fine. We had to remove the bass side of the = case to get the extremely tight fitting plate out of the piano. The action has a double stack with rocker capstans and is very hard to = find action parts. After stringing and kept in proper climate = conditions the tuning is very stable at A440 with a booming tone some = grands would like to have. I've had the piano in my shop for about 4 = years, working between the pay jobs. IMO this type of job should never = be undertaken with profit in mind. Maybe before I check out, this old = veteran ship of WW II will get a nice piano for her crew and passangers = as she visits ports along the Atlantic coast. Visit it at = www.liberty-ship.com.=20 Carlos Ralon, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c9/fb/98/98/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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