1912-13 Ivers and Pond pitch raise / bridge concerns

[William Monroe]

Again,

If the bridge pops off because you've taken care to bring the piano back into playing condition, that is another issue that needs to be addressed.  Note your concern to the client, but proceed - or walk away.  If it comes off, repair it.  To not raise pitch because the instrument is incapable of being useful seems to me to be like missing seeing the forest - darn trees in the way.  ;-]

William R. Monroe

  Greetings,

         Thanks for other suggestions on pitch raising Ivers and Pond piano.

    I apologize, maybe should have expounded; I am concerned about the pitch raise, insofar as the possiblity of breaking the glue joints between the bridge and the sound board, due to or old glue joints or aged brittle wood. I just don't want to be almost done with a pitch correction and hear POP!... and the bridge breaks free. After being under pitch for many years, it just may not take too kindly to a raise. I usually dont elect to raise old pianos too far, if at all.


  Thanks in advance,
  Julia Gottshall
  Reading, PA
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