If that's the type of Wurlitzer I am thinking of the pins are in kind of a teardropped shaped hole in the plate with no pinblock. Tuning is a bit tricky, but you have to do a slight lifting motion with the hammer while tuning. I haven't run across one of those for many a'year. LGood luck. Bud At 08:32 PM 11/20/00 -0500, you wrote: >I'm new to this cyber-stuff, so bear with me. I NEED SOME HELP!!! > A few weeks ago I checked out a 1929 Wurlitzer studio piano (it's a >family original and has tons of sentamental value). The bass bridge is in >bits; no biggie. But I noticed that the tuning pins were remarkably tight, >and, although the piano hadn't been tuned in (they said) fifteen years, it >wasn't all that whacked. > So we brought it into the shop to recap the bridge, and I took it apart, >and - - whoops! - - - no pinblock. > The pins are seated in the casting (I assume) and they have cute little >wedges driven into them from the back (to splay them out somewhat?) I can >tell it will be challenge to tune, just because it FEELS so odd. . .but it >seems to work. > My conundrum: there are no backposts (just a heavy full-perimeter >plate). I am nervous about dropping tension on the bass section to fix the >bridge for two reasons. The first is, am I going to somehow dislodge the >snugness of the tuning pins? and, second, am I going to have the darned thing >collapse on me because there's no visible means of support (so to speak) to >prevent uneven stress from becoming dangerously , well, dangerous? > Has anyone out there ever worked on one of these beasts? If so, I'd love >to hear from you and get either encouragement or caution, or both. > Like I said, it's a family piano; otherwise I might pass on the job, > even >though I'm this far into it. > I eagerly await responses! > Thanks! Tom Patten, RPT > The Great Susquehanna Piano Co. Milton, PA > TomRPT@aol.com Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, california
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