I had forgotten about the hole through the brace.?Your idea should work. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 1:12 am Subject: Re: Mystery part At 22:12 10/13/2007, you wrote:? >Dave? >? >YES, YES YES, this part is very crucial. Without it, the plate will >continually move forward, or towards the tail, and the piano will >never stay in tune.? >Put the part in place after you install the plate, but before you >start stringing. If it doesn't stay in place while stringing, just >put some masking take around it and the plate, until there is enough >tension on the plate to hold it in place.? >Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT? >Piano Tuner/Technician? >Honolulu, HI? >Author of? >The Business of Piano Tuning? >available from Potter Press? >www.pianotuning.com? ? I don't see a problem keeping it in place during stringing. It looks like there is a hole through it. A string through the hole and looped up ovet the strut of the plate should keep it positioned until the string tension does the job. Then just snip the string.? ? I'm probably missing something, however. It can't be that easy...? ? ? Conrad Hoffsommer? ? Early to rise: early to bed;? Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.? ? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071014/f0bbc5d5/attachment.html
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