Herr Torella,
At 10:54 11/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Bummer. I think you're going to have to resort to removing a few lag
screws to find that little bugger. If there's enough room between the plate
and rim, you *may* be able to lift the plate and give it a little bit of a
right turn to lift the strings off of the bridgepins....no, wait! I guess
that might not be such a good idea. :-)
Real bad... The bass strut has always worried me, and torquing the plate
could be disastrous. The bass strut bows toward the rim >1/2". I've been
expecting to find it imploded for the last 17 years, but the damned thing
is about the most stable instrument on campus.
>How about a restring? It probably needs one, anyhow.
Probably true, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it- right? Very powerful
instrument. Besides, if I restring it, I'll probably wind up losing more
of those suckers. Maybe I'll just make a replacement out of a chunk of
grenadillo.
I'll get a crew to upend it next week before they leave for turkey day.
Conrad Hoffsommer - hoffsoco@luther.edu
Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) of
Biopowered Digitally Activated Tone Generation Systems
"If you have to plug it in, or you can't watch how it works,
I don't work on it."
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