wrong repair

[Michael Jorgensen]

Hi John,
   Why bother to tackle it? If the lowest notes do get stuck, alittle
careful work with a coping sawblade or a fine jigsaw blade in a vice
grip should solve that.  As for the cheek block and key slip, it's sad
they're permanently on, but since it's not a grand, I'd just live with
it.
-Mike Jorgensen

John R Fortiner 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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