It is not a big deal. My repair would be the same-flip it and fill it. A side observation: I find it interesting that most of the pianos I've found over the years with this problem were those in which the inner and outer rims had been pressed simultaneously as a unit. So much has been claimed for this system over the years but, in my experience at least, the claims don't seem to hold up to reality. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Sowers Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:11 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] 1887 Steinway A with inner/outer rim separation The biggest concern I had with the piano was that there was a crack running along the entire rim of the piano between the inner and outer rim. It was as much as .5 mm wide in some places. My question is how big a concern is this, and how much should it effect the appraisal? If I were trying to sell the piano myself, I'd probably just flip the piano over and fill it with epoxy - not a big deal. But I'm curious to others opinions. It doesn't appear to be effecting the tuning stability of the piano. -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101111/34f692d4/attachment.htm>
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