On 4/24/2011 5:40 PM, John Delacour wrote: > > Here is a picture of the lockrail attached to the top front half on my > 1870 Brinsmead concert grand. > Any ideas? I think it most unlikely that it is simply glued on. My first thought agreed with Paul McCloud, as did my second. There's no lucid reason to mount it with keyed plates, since it needn't reasonably be easily removable. Instruments of this vintage also tend to have veneer buried hardware, for what may have seemed like a good reason at the time, but is a universal pain in the butt now - far far beyond the reasonably presumed life expectancy of the unit. I'd leave "annoying enough" alone and work around it. Ron N
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