David Hughes brought this up in his "Strings and Things" class at MARC. He doesn't know the purpose either but chooses to keep them. I always assumed they were meant to prevent any sliding that might occur during stringing or shifting from torquing the screws down. I keep them if I'm keeping those front bars, which is becoming less of a practice these days anyway. Jude Reveley, RPT Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC Lowell, Massachusetts (978) 323-4545 ----- Original Message ----- From: David Love To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:50 PM Subject: [pianotech] counter bearing screen On Steinways where the counterbearing bars are the segmented screw in type there is a screen mesh that lays between the plate and the counterbearing bars. What is the function of that screen? Is it necessary to replace it when remounting those bars? David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090515/65e98df3/attachment-0001.htm>
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