Vintage Chickering

[William R. Monroe]

Thanks Conrad

Good info

William R. Monroe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 5:46 AM
>
> The trickiest thing I found on the one here is that one of the plate bolts
> has what looks like a rivit head at the top. (bass corner) The nut and
> washer are on the bottom and easily seen _if_ you have the leg
> removed.  With the leg still on, you could be scratching your head for a
> looooong time.
>
> The other fairly obvious, but harder to deal with if you want to preserve
> it, is the fancy moulding covering the gap between plate and stretcher. It
> is glued and tacked in place.
>
> Once those things are dealt with, the plate lifts straight up, pinblocks
> attached with multiple screws from below. Flipping the plate over, you see
> that the individual segments of block are attached to wood flanges and fit
> down into the plate. The blocks _may_ be final fitted using a filler of
> hide glue or shellac. (It was black, hard and brittle, and I didn't do
> forensics.) Some convincing may be necessary to pop them out of their
> places. I pin or two left in place and hammered, once all pinblock screws
> are removed, worked for me.
>
> YMMV
>
> good luck...
>
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>
> Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
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>
> - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score,
> - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.
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