Hi List, When shipping a piano out for new soundboard,bridges, and pinblock, is it necessary for the bellyman to have the plate delivered with the body of the piano? I've never thought about this when shipping a piano out since it's always had the plate. Do they need to put the plate back in after the new "equipment" has been installed for proper plate heights, pinblock holes, etc. ? This may be a really obvious answer to you and it may be that I'm not thinking correctly. I've pulled the plate from this 1924 Steinway L this morning to discover some ugliness that may not be worth repairing by shimming or epoxying, the bridge string grooves are pretty ugly and the pinblock is not the best of shape, but probably treatable. If the outsourced tech didn't need the plate, I thought of trying my hand at rebronzing/spraying or what-have-you myself while the rest of the case is gone. I'm doing the action rebuild too. Thanks in advance for your wise words. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090924/56d191b9/attachment.htm>
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