Hi Terry: Just glancing at your picture of the Mason upright board. Love it. A couple of questions, though: First, I noticed at the top of the board, treble end and just below the pinblock, is a narrow strip of wood that flares out about 1/3 of the way down from the treble end. Likewise, you have two strips of wood just above the tenor end of the bass bride curving to match the shape of the Z- bar. What is the purpose of these? Here is my guess: In those areas you have poor access to clamp the panel to the liner and z-bar, so these are there to serve as clamps along with screws when gluing in the panel. Is that correct, or am I out to lunch, like the dog shown below? Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Terry Farrell Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:51 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] S&S K(52) Restoration Gene - IMHO, you really need to have a lengthy conversation with Del. His design modifications produced an incredible sound from my M&H upright..... Terry Farrell PS: Oh, and after you glue in that new soundboard (hide glue, preferably) and need to clean up any squeeze-out, I've got just the solution for you...... ;-) On May 17, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Gene Nelson wrote: Just getting it apart now so I can measure and record the scale. No wound trichords to deal with but no trans bridge. - not ruling out one for redesign depending on the scale. The end of the tenor bridge come very close to the bottom board/rim structure. The bass bridge seems more nicely positioned. Bass bridge is canto levered and straight. The canto lever will go. Huge birdseye maple space filler/cut off device in the lower right and a smaller cut off bar in the upper left. Might just keep that part the way it is. Do you know if those pins that look like bridge pins - driven into the plate - that offset/terminate the wound bass strings just below the tuning pins are removable? Gene -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120519/367b15a1/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 49791 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120519/367b15a1/attachment-0002.jpeg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 58590 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120519/367b15a1/attachment-0003.jpeg>
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