bridge on model 0

[Richard Brekne]

As long as you've come this far, you might run a thin edge under the bridge and
see where it hangs. Maybe there is more to the bridge / soundboard  assembly
then just screws ?? Otherwise... Iearned a long time ago that forceing
something to do what it will not willingly do almost inevitably results in
damage of some sort or another. Slight heat, some small amount of water
/alcohol mix fed into the places the seal has broken from time to time, and
steady pressure with wedges have always given me the best results for this kind
of thing. Can take a couple days sometime.... but when its ready to pop... it
just does.


> >Anyone got any bright ideas on how to get a bass bridge off a 1960's model
> >0 - whole soundboard & bridge areas have been "drowned" in lacquer at
> >factory - Hamburg - now buzzes from the bridge big time - have tried all
> >the usual remedies and the only thing left is to take off the bridge and
> >re-set it - have taken out the screws from underneath and broken the
> >"seal" around the bridge and am getting a lot of creaks and movement but
> >cant get the bridge to pop off and you would with an older piano stuck
> >to-gether with hide glue - heaven alone knows what they used on this. I am
> >afraid that it will pull up part of the soundboard if I am too over
> >enthusiastic.
>

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
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