Seems to me like if you have already started to work the Bridge off, the disscussion about what you had or had not checked is a mute point. If its not hide glue, then you might just fire off an email to Steinway Hamburg and ask them what they used. In anycase... the basic idea is to loosen the glues grip with both wedges, the appropriate solvent in modest amounts, and perhaps a small amount of heat. You might also double check the notching on the outside chance that might be the source. I've run into a few instruments along the line that either had too shallow a notch here and there, or not wide enough. Even ran into a Petrof upright once that had a bunch of chunks of saw chips stuck between the strings and bridge... But thats another story :) Cheers RicB resife wrote: > Yes plenty of crown / downbearing and no cracks and yes it has lots of > upwards and downwards movement in its unstrung state. I have had many > frames out of pianos over the years and normally when you have to > attend to a bass bridge it is already actually falling off and either > falls off as you take the bass strings off or is so loose that you > merely have to give it a tap. In this case there was obvious > separation at the edges but its stuck fast undeneath in the middle. > The buzzes in the bass area came and went depending on the weather but > there were only buzzes in the bass - the obvious choices were string > or bridge pin but neither of these turned out to be the problem. I > still think that all the lacquer on the board/bridge may be the cause. > I will be stripping and refinishing the soundboard in any event and > obviously checking where the soundboard meets the cabinet and this too > could be a possibility. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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