Avery, Is there a reason that epoxy wouldn't work to set the brass sleeve in place in the lyre brace? Joel's solution sounds as if it works well; I'm just looking into alternatives. Respectfully, Jon > >I sent this to Joel Rappaport and below are his comments about it (with >his permission): > >> As far as the comments from Michelle L Stranges on the current Baldwin >>system, if it is the same system that we experienced for the last four >>summers at Tanglewood, all I can say is "no, no, No NO" IMHO. Those little >>T-screws go into a brass sleeve that is knurled and inserted into a hole >>drilled into the top of the wooden support stick. Problem is, the sleeve >>goes into end grain and even though knurled, has a tendency to become loose >>so that not only is the stick no longer adjustable, you can't shorten it >>enough to remove it. So the whole lyre now has to come off to repair the >>exquisitely engineered feature. The factory 'solution' is to drop CA glue >>around the sleeve to 'fix' it in the wood. We tried that at Tanglewood and >>the result was that the sleeve then twirled around in the CA glue instead of >>the wood. We had to (with great trouble) remove the sleeve and glue veneer >>into the hole to provide some flat grain, then reinsert the sleeve. That >>was the only thing that worked. This was probably the one most common >>complaint we had to trouble shoot, even more than tuning calls. >>Ted Sambell's and Denis Brassard's invention sounds so much better. And I >>have seen the threaded brass cup on Bösendorfer grands, too. It's a nice, >>simple and _workable_ solution. Jon Ralinovsky Piano Technician Department of Music Miami University 513/529-6548
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