This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You are going to have to yank the plate to remove the old long bridge = and install a new one. I've never removed a long bridge from a board = without destroying it - but then I'm always intending on building and = installing a new soundboard. I'm sure it is possible to remove the old = bridge while preserving the original soundboard - but it would seem a = long tedious process to me. Sounds like an interesting situation - = please keep us advised. I'll be interested in hearing if others have techniques to remove long = bridge without damaging soundboard - one thing that comes to mind is to = grind it off with a router. Any idea on what caused the bridge to crack like that? Do they axe = things for Jesus? Terry Farrell List, I recently ran into a situation with a 6 yr old Bergman TG-150 grand. = As the pastor unlocked the church door to let me in he was telling me = how the Lord blessed him with this piano several years ago. The first = thing I see is broken bass strings hanging all out of the piano still = attached at one end or the other. Six were broken in all. Out here in = rural Georgia these "snake handlers" regularly flog the piano for Jesus = so the broken strings were no surprise. What was surprising was the huge = gaping split in the extreme treble section of the bridge. It was split = all the way down to the soundboard, cap and root. If the strings were = removed you could stick your finger in the crack. As the piano was under = 10 yrs old I contacted Young Chang to see about a warranty repair or = replacement of the piano. They asked me to submit an estimate for repair = and they would send me a new long bridge. Can you glue a bridge onto a = soundboard in the piano? Can you remove an old bridge from a soundboard = that you will be reusing? Should a proper repair also include installing = a new board with bridge attached? Any information and or opinions would = be greatly appreciated. I am in the process of tooling up for board = replacement in my shop but have not yet done one. I have a Conover 66 = that I will be installing one in after taking Andre Bolduc's class this = year at the Annual PTG conference. I do not have a large go-bar set up. Thanks for any help you may be able to offer, Britt West ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c8/7f/c5/c2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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