hearts on fire NOT OT

[Nichols]

Ed,
    Don't be 'fraid. By now you've seen Carl's post. Whew. I said "bad 
scale"..... he really laid it out and is offering the cure! Cool. I suspect 
that yours will be fine, if you let it down easy (not the old cutoff wheel 
approach) and at least rescale the treble. How about the soundboard wave. 
There?

Funsies,
Guy


At 01:37 PM 2/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Guy writes:
><<  Ed.... BTW... the treble crack that has show up on 5 or 6 of those
>Sohmers down here has been pretty easy to fix, with a "scab" of steel on
>the outside (right) side of the strut. There's always been enough room
>between the strut and the rim. The "Cupid" model is narrower, as I recall,
>and may require a bit of extra grinding/fitting. >>
>
>  Umm, now you are scaring me.  There is no crack on this plate at the 
> moment.
>What I am wondering about is whether they crack when removed, or what?  I
>have the intention of pulling the plate, cleaning up the board and 
>bridges, and
>restringing.  Is there some particular liability to the plate when doing 
>this?
>    And, it also appears that the scaling on this model is in question.  I
>wonder whether to have one of our intrepid rescalers write me up one or if 
>this
>has already been done, maybe I could buy a copy? (the piano is 5'4" and has a
>26 note bass).   Newton drew up new scales for several odd brand pianos 
>and the
>results were always good.....
>REgards,
>
>
>Ed Foote RPT
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>
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