Bridge Notch Anomaly

[Roger Jolly]

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Hi John,
                  You have had good advice from Ron.N.  A few things to 
add. Buy a small wood  carvers chisel, they work very nicely when cleaning 
up bridge notches. Secondly it looks like a small gap behind the centre 
string bridge pin, a wee drip of CA glue will clean up any falseness on 
this string. Finally make sure the hammer fitting to the string is correct.
Regards Roger


At 04:23 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote:
>Oh Wiser-than-I Ones, (of which there are multitudes!)
>
>I heard a "zinging" in the attack of a low tenor string on a customer's 
>piano.  She heard it, too, and didn't like it.  (Turned out a little 
>needling on the hammer at about 1 o'clock and 11 o'clock softened that 
>attack nicely) Upon close inspection I notice an anomaly in the way the 
>bridge was notched. It's the right string of the lowest plain string 
>unison.  I was wondering if I might elicit a few opinions about the looks 
>of this.  I've attached a photo -- I hope it comes through!
>
>The bridge isn't notched all the way across on that right-most pin.  On 
>the side that the string bears there is certainly a good notch, but to the 
>right of that it's not.  Seems like that would actually strengthen rather 
>than weaken the pin's hold, but since it looks unusual I thought I'd 
>ask.  Extending upward from the un-notched edge there is a visible 
>line.  That's the border of the notching.  It is not a crack.  This is a 
>fairly new piano, about 3 or 4 years old, a Knabe Studio Upright.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John Dorr
>Helena, MT
>
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