Hi Joe - comments interspersed below: > > Terry the Farrell said: > "HOT DOG! 1867 Steinway square. Likely will not be pulling plate. Doing > some bridge repairs, restringing, dampers, full action rebuild. Case is > nearly flawless. Should be nice when done....." > > Joe Garrett wrote: > I would strongly suggest you pull the plate and do pinblock route/replace! Well, I hadn't decided what I'm gonna do there. The pins are original with maybe 30 in-lbs. torgue (not tight, but good enough to tune it). I could just go one size up, or I was thinking of maybe plugging through the plate. Never done that before, but I was toying with trying it. I've plugged square blocks before when I've pulled the plate out - I like doing that - but I am not planning on yanking the plate on this one. Any comments on this? > Cap the bridges..don't just "mess with it"! Well, being that this is sort-of an economy job, and I wasn't intending on pulling the plate, I was thinking more along the lines of a good epoxy repair. > If the dampers are reasonably functional..leave them alone. If not, then > duplicate EXACTLY what is there. DO NOT put modern Wedge type dampers on > it! (PLEASE???!!!) Sounds reasonable. Curious though - why not use wedges? > Do a scale evaluation and reset it for 440cps. Use > 435cps as your criteria for the initial scale run...then change that > perameter. Yup. Already planning on that. > Hmmm? And where are you going to get the action parts for this "full action > rebuild"???Hmmmm?<G> Well, okay, I guess I was exaggerating a bit - how 'bout "fairly thorough"? Hammer butts and jacks are in pretty good shape - I think it will regulate quite well with the originals. New hammers though. Somebody replaced the hammers - looks like normal grand hammers and some grade-schooler went at them with a dull knife to shape them....... :-( > Yes, it will be "nice when done"....properly. Try a > Victorian Temperament to really get the full enchilada.<G> Like what? > BTW, I wouldn't get up on replacing the board, since that thing was flat 2 > days after it was installed. (scope out the ribbing//rim mounting, etc. and > you'll get what I mean. On those, it really doesn't matter. Ya gets what ya > gets. Oh, come on, I was just about to head out to my shop and start laminating some 4 M ribs for the new board! Let's see...... 4M ribs up by the treble, 15M ribs in the bass area - oh, wait a minute - the bass IS at the treble end!!!!!! What to do????? Yeah, original board will stay. I've torn into a few of these before and very quickly realized that there never was any crown to those boards - at least not after they were strung in the factory. Board is in good shape - no cracks - besides, why would I want to tear the soul of the piano out? ;-) Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120517/cf2f3fb0/attachment.htm>
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