Barbara, If the lyre isn’t falling apart loose, you can often follow these steps: - Pull the lyre apart as far as it will go - Insert glue of choice into gaps – thin epoxy works well - Press the lyre back together and clean up glue squeeze - Use a small hammer and a piece of wood that is smaller than the wedges, tap the wedges down tight. The wedges are the side pieces, not the center. - Apply thin C/A glue around the wedges and post ends This does a good job for a quick repair. If the top block or lyre box are so loose as to about fall off, though, then taking it apart and getting glue throughout the entire joint is much better, of course. When finished, do make sure that the lyre has a little force on it from the lyre braces when mounted on the piano. By loading it slightly with pressure towards the pianist, then driving the top lyre brace screws into new holes, you will make sure that the lyre is good and stable and won’t likely wiggle in use. Of course, a careless piano mover can still break up those glue joints again pretty quickly. Don Mannino (from Japan this week) From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Richmond Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:50 AM To: pianotech Subject: [pianotech] Kawai lyre Greetings Kawai and/or lyre experts: Thanks Bruce Dornfeld for your excellent article on regluing grand lyres--how timely for me. This lyre is from a 20+ year old Kawai GE-1. I assume that there two wedges holding these lyre posts in place. I was just trying to figure out the configuration of the parts since I want to know where to aim the chisel... Or, would it be cheating to use a pocket hole/screw? Other comments? Thanks, Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100223/9598c05d/attachment.htm>
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