I'm pretty new to this, so please forgive my naivete: I looked at an upright piano for a customer. It had a crack in the plate from the bottom treble corner of the open-faced pin block. I thought that this area might not be that structurally significant, since the frame of the piano is pretty massive and the crack isn't between the string attachment points. But then, something must have made it crack, the plate screw just above in the photo, maybe. Otherwise the piano seems pretty nice for its age. Is it junk? Any thoughts? Bryn Latta _________________________________________________________________ Create a cool, new character for your Windows Live™ Messenger. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9656621 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090604/55f7617f/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: plateCrack1.jpg Type: image/pjpeg Size: 270689 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090604/55f7617f/attachment-0002.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: plateCrack2.jpg Type: image/pjpeg Size: 244183 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090604/55f7617f/attachment-0003.bin>
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