Why were you cutting this Starr plate?

[Farrell]

Because the whole plate was way to big and heavy. The small quadrant is much lighter and easier to move around.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:44 PM
Subject: Why were you cutting this Starr plate?


> Subject line says it all................
>      T
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> --- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > I was cutting out the treble section of an old Starr
> > plate the other day. I cut it by drilling many
> > closely spaced 3/8" or so holes. When I was nearly
> > done drilling what I thought might be enough holes
> > "CRACK!". The whole area below where the bridge had
> > been cracked on its own and ended up with a visible
> > crack. Obviously there had been quite a bit of
> > stored tension in the plate.
> > 
> > Terry Farrell
> >   
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <JIMRPT@aol.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:29 PM
> > Subject: verrry interesting!! :-)
> > 
> > 
> > > We have often spoken of plate stress and how it is
> > transferred to other 
> > > sections/notes as a string(s) broke or were
> > loosened. I have never seen a 
> > > better example than the little Apollo grand I am
> > removing the strings 
> > > from.......
> > > The bass strings are out and I was in the process
> > of removing tension from 
> > > the tenor section.....when 'pong''' a string broke
> > in the octave 5/6 
> > > section!! as I kept removing tension from the
> > tenor, strings kept popping in 
> > > the 5/6 area...a total of six altogether
> > >  As I was relieving tension in the 5/6 area the
> > strings in the top section 
> > > 6/7/8 starting breaking also !!
> > >  Now the strings that broke were all kinda really
> > rusty and broke fairly 
> > > easily but I thought it was a perfect example of
> > plate stress and stress 
> > > transferance............
> > > I have never had this happen to me before.
> > > 
> > > Jim Bryant (FL)
> > > p.s. the plate is a full perimeter plate.
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