Who can help me?

[Avery]

I guess I'm having a senior moment, but I still don't know what a 
"lock bar" is. From all the responses, I
guess everyone else does. :-(

Avery

At 12:14 PM 1/29/2007, you wrote:
>I looked in Merle Mason's book for his terminology of Jesse's "lock 
>bar" and found:  Log (Baldwin, Schimmel), Lock Rail (Sohmer), Top 
>Bar (Kimbell).    Wondering what Yamaha, Steinway call it?
>
>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, CA  94044
>
>----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Received: 1/29/2007 5:43:30 AM
>Subject: Re: Who can help me?
>
>
> >At 08:14 AM 1/29/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> >>I have a customer with a 1920's Steinway A, and the lock bar screws
> >>are loose - I need to put in slightly larger screws because the
> >>holes are a bit enlarged. I wrote down the dimensions of the
> >>existing screws the last time I tuned the piano, but lost the
> >>information -- I think they're somewhere around 2 1/2 inches long.
> >>Does anyone know how long the screws are and their diameter?
> >>
> >>Jesse Gitnik
> >>NYC
>
>
> >Repair the stript holes...
> >Longer screw will go through the lid, fatter screw probably won't fit
> >through log/bar, and neither will be easy to find or match the 
> others, anyway.
>
>
>
>
> >Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
> >Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> >1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
>
> >- 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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