"Rebuilt" Lyre

[Greg Newell]

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Terry,
         Next time give leather a try for the filler material. It'll never 
rip up the way veneer does sometimes. At least that's been my experience. 
It also soaks up the glue real well and stays put forever.

Greg Newell


At 11:05 PM 12/9/2002, you wrote:

>The recent thread about ripoff tuners and shoddy "rebuilding" reminded me 
>of an appointment I had the other day. Tuned a 1902 6' or so Kimball 
>grand. I had tuned it less than a year ago. When I was done tuning and was 
>playing the keys a little, I noticed that the sustain pedal was working 
>poorly and making lots of groaning noise. I crawled onto the ground and 
>looked about. The lady came in the room and I asked her if she had noticed 
>poor sustain pedal performance. She said that indeed it was miserable. She 
>said that I had "rebuilt" the whole thing down there during our last 
>appointment. I was somewhat taken aback by that. I most certainly had no 
>memory of any "rebuilding" of the sort.
>
>Anyway, to make a long story short, the bottom pedal box was falling off 
>one of the two main vertical posts of the lyre, thus making the groan. And 
>after removing the lyre I saw and remembered the extent of my previous 
>lyre "rebuilding" job: Last time, the entire lyre was falling off the 
>keybed because the four screws were stripped - I had CA-glued veneer shims 
>into the enlarged holes and screwed all back together - screws were still 
>very strongly set into their holes. Yup, that was about a $20 complete 
>lyre "rebuilding" job.
>
>"Rebuilt".........Arg!
>
>Terry Farrell
>
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Greg Newell
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net

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