Just a reminder...Make sure the action flanges are in good condition - some old Kimball pianos can have serious problems with fragile brass parts. Proceed with caution :) Ryan On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Les Koltvedt <t4348lk at yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > 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? > > Thanks in advance, > Les > > > -- 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/20101116/4d9f6cd5/attachment.htm>
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