List, today I encountered a repair on an upright piano that has me stumped as to its quality and or correctness. The repair looks to be about 50 years old and the piano about 75 years young. The repair. I believe was intended to add down bearing and was accomplished by placing piano wire ( ( 16 gage ? could not measure ) long the bridge pins. In the bass, the string was placed close to the speaking length bridge pins but the plain wire strings had the added string close to the tail bridge pins. this was done maybe to avoid different speaking lengths of the plain wires as the longest plain wire strings had short pieces of wire placed along the speaking length alla the bass strings. Has anyone seen such a repair?? Any thoughts?? This is a 'store' piano of little value. My biggest concern I think is pitch stability, as when seating the strings, as is my custom, the strings moved about 1/8" and I'm thinkin'' that they will return to rest high on the bridge pins where they were. Joe You know your on the level if your bubble is in the middle.
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