From: Les Koltvedt <t4348lk at yahoo.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Fw: 1895 Kimball Message-ID: <918322.14680.qm at web53907.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Looked at a 1895 Kimball upright today. Owner is entertaining having the bass strings replaced, there are very tubby. The piano also has a Honky Tonk muffler, almost looks like a standard muffler, felt is slit and brass tabs mounted on the ends. Was this made like this or altered at some point in it's life. It was altered My concern is the bass bridge has some splitting around the pins and it's apron has 3 cracks in it. If they decided to restring, the bass bridge arpon would have to be repaired, after removing the bridge, can it simply be glued back together? white glue or epoxy? also I'd repair the splits along the bridge pins at that time. Lots of info posted of late on that. Hmmmm?Bass bridge can and should be repaired IN the piano. With Epoxies: Two Tone Clear and Steel Epoxies; each for specific jobs. It looks to me that it has steel wound bass strings. Is there a vendor that makes these? or would replacing with brass wound strings change the sound. They optained this piano because of the Honky Tonk feature. What supplier offers steel wound strings? None! (that I know of). Because the piano has Steel wound strings, you will need to have the Bass scale recalulated to compensate for the difference in mass of the steel to copper. If you do not, you will have a disparity in tension, (higher) and an excessively bright bass, (due to the excessive tension). I advise that you do the recalculating yourself or have a good scaler do it Thanks in advance, Les Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101116/fa90dc04/attachment.htm>
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