WOW! That soundboard looks so much better in the piano than on my bench! It looks great! A very large smile came to my face when I saw that photo. I really don't know anything about using beech on a bridge root or cap. I know it's pretty hard - that's what Delignit is made from. But I don't know how it holds up on bridges. What are you going to be doing with the pinblock? Larger pins (tell me it's not so!)? Replace entire mortised-into-the-rim block? Replace sections? Plug? Just curious. Terry Farrell Farrell Piano www.farrellpiano.com ----- Original Message ----- From: RicB To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:19 PM Subject: Bridge pins revisited /Bluthner project Hi Terry The thing was in remarkable condition. Considering the state the soundboard was in that kind of surprised me really. I am replacing it because I will be changing the scale slightly, opting for a bit longer string lengths in the treble section. Besides... to cover my historical fanny among other reasons .... I'm going to reassemble the old panel and bridges, making them look all nice and pretty again and put them in a nice display box so that anyone interested can view the original configuration complete with original scaling details. But gee... I sure hope the new one will hold up as well as the old one. For aesthetics I'm leaning towards using solid beech as the original was. Any thoughts ? btw... for any one interested.. the soundboard came today from Terry's workshop in the states. The perimeter is fitted and the longside ribs... a bit of fitting left to do on the bent side... but heres a pic. Cheers RicB Just curious Ric - if this bridge is in such good condition, why are you making a new one? Of course, if you are rescaling, you may need to. But if not, seems to me you have an excellent bridge right now. What is your thinking here? Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070103/1727dc50/attachment.html
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