yamaha spinet

[John Ross]

Yamaha did make a spinet, and the couple I have tuned were quite nice, for a spinet.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
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  From: Michael Magness 
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  Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:15 PM
  Subject: Re: yamaha spinet





  On 10/15/07, richard.ucci at att.net <richard.ucci at att.net> wrote: 
    List,
    Does anyone know if Yamaha spinets ca:1967 or so , had upper row of plate bolts secured with acorn nuts at the back of the piano? Looked like a separation repair, but the owner said it was purchased new. Also ,don't the nuts go on the inside of the piano in a repair like this? 
    Any, piano was about 40cents down in pitch ,with some very out unisons, baseboard heating up against the back.
    My real question relates to the plate nuts which were sooo loose I could tighten them by hand. I used a socket wrench to torque them down, but should I be doing anything else before bringing up to pitch?
    Thanks,
    RU/UP

  Hi Richard,
  I'm not sure what you're working on, to the best of my knowledge and according to a Google search Yamaha never made a spinet! If you're referring to the continental style console(the one w/no front legs) yes that does sound like a seperation repair but some of the early ones were bolted differently so I wouldn't say so for sure. 
  Were there bolt heads in the front or screws?
  As far as anything else, you might check the bottom row of  plate screws/bolts whatever it has, in fact check all of the perimeter screws and the nose bolts (if there are any) you may find several more loose ones.
  Mike

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