Dean The Henry Miller has 23 bass as well but the shape of your bridge should yield a far better tension overall. Beautiful legs baby!! I'll bet it has the raised wooden paltform for the plate to sit on. You may be better off putting a the new adjustablee suspension bolts in. Having fun yet? Dale Hi Dale I only have tear down pics. The legs have obviously taken a beating. It was hand grained rosewood over mahogany- Asian, I think. I posted some pics of it previously showing the treble fish on steroids. I also posted pics showing full agraffes and agraffes on the bridges. I’m doing a basic restring, pinblock, hammers, refinish. Nothing exotic in the belly. I’m planning on routering out the pinblock fields and epoxying new sections of pinblock in place, per Terry Farrell’s previously posted pics. I’m gonna try it. Replacing the entire original block would entail some pretty exotic cutting and shaping. I am wanting to rescale. It has 23 notes in the bass section; tenor notes 24 & 25 are plain at 1111 mm and 1078 mm respectively. The original scale still stenciled on the piano calls for 22 ga. We took of 21 ga for #24 and 20 ga for #25. Very little of what came off corresponds to the stencils. So who knows what is going on. Better to start over. I’ve used Arledge before to do a rescale. Anyone have any other recommendations or want to play with it? J I’ll be happy to submit a spreadsheet. Blessings, Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of erwinspiano at aol.com Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:36 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: Hallet Davis teardown update Hey Dean What are you doing to this old beast. I Love the relics from 1890 to 1910. Real Tanks... with real redesign potential & gogeous cases. Real jig saw puzzles. Do you have an full glamour shot of this Beauty. Just remember these paraphrased words from Buddy Bob Davis. The key to successful piano work is be able to get yourself out of trouble. Wow...been scorching my ears all week. Now it's your turn Dale -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/aa52edb9/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 22341 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/aa52edb9/attachment-0003.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 27742 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/aa52edb9/attachment-0004.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 45471 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/aa52edb9/attachment-0005.jpe
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