Greetings All -- I recently serviced an old, (1909), b grand piano that had been sort of rebuilt 20 or 30 years ago. New strings, pinblock, pins, that kind of thing. I had to pound the pins in a bit to get them to hold so now the piano is in tune and sounds pretty decent. However, the soundboard is FULL of cracks, and it buzzes like CRAZY. Fortunately the owner keeps the lid completely closed, including over the music desk, and covered with pictures and knick-knacks so these buzzes are, for the most part, not a day to day problem. My fantasy is that there is some kind of filler material, like a glue or a putty, that I can fill these cracks with from the underside, so my first question here is to that end. This is a beautiful natural wood piano but the customer is aware that the cost of possibly restringing, again, in order to repair the soundboard is not a cost effective option. Especially since it does not get played that much. The customer is also entertaining the idea of selling it just to get something smaller. What are my options here? -- Geoff • Geoff Sykes, RPT • 626-799-7545 • www.ivories52.com <http://www.ivories52.com/> No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.200 / Virus Database: 270.9.11/1819 - Release Date: 11/29/2008 10:37 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081129/58cc0a71/attachment.html>
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