Baldwin spinet repair?

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sat Nov 4 15:15:18 MST 2006


> The strut has been drilled so that the strings each have an individual 
> hole to pass through to a new hitch pin location.  That "took care of" 
> the first few unisons.  The remaining hitchpins were relocated to the 
> bottom side of the top edge of the plate opening for the bass bridge.  
> The raised edge of the plate opening was drilled for the strings to pass 
> through it.  Because of the bass strings and weird location of those 
> hitch pins I couldn't get a pic of that.
>  
> Debbie

I'm impressed! That's a pretty inventive relatively cheap 
bypass of a repair that's otherwise much more than the piano's 
worth. I'd give it an 8 for practicality and effectiveness.
Ron N


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