Hello, We just finished a quick restoration on a Sohmer "Cupid Model" grand with agraffes on the tenor bridge but with front and back pins in the undamped treble and in the bass. The bridge in the middle tenor had rolled, pulling the soundboard and bridge loose from the ribs. Our shop has repaired this (before my time) with bolts in front of the agraffes through the bridge roots and ribs. The owner of this piano specified that we simply make it work: 40% of the ivory was damaged, and the action was fairly poor. I capped the ribs with maple (recycled from a delaminated upright wrestplank) slightly oversized of the separation at the front, extending about half of that to the rear. I placed screws from underneath the soundboard into the front of the bridge, carefully clearing the agraffes and additionally I put screws with soundboard buttons through the top of the soundboard into the maple caps on the three worst (cracked) ribs. Preliminary tuning/voicing actually surprised me in not having the anomolies I expected: certainly it sounds as good as it would with bolts. Clark Panaccione
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