wrong repair

[Jon Page]

Trebuchet

At 10:21 AM 6/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Just thought you could cry with me about this one.  I looked at an
>Everett console piano a couple of days ago that had a damaged leg - so I
>was told by the customer.  Well------ the damage went way beyond the leg
>as the real problem was that the bottom of the key bed that the leg was
>mounted to was fractured.  Some previous owner had tried to fix this with
>a generous application of Elmers (white btw).  The story doesn't stop
>there as in the process of gluing the key bed the squeeze out also
>managed to get on the tops of low A and B ( fortunately they still play
>).  AND the same squeeze out proceeded not only to these keys and the
>split bed, but also to the key slip and to the cheek block on that side
>of the piano, none of which are currently removable without some serious
>work alongs the lines of glue line breaking.  Any thoughts as to how to
>tackle this???  (I have considered a match and about a gallon of gas or
>its equivalent.)
>
>                                                                         
>       John Fortiner
>                                                                         
>       pianoserv440@juno.com
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