Who can help me?

[Porritt, David]

Steinway calls them the lockbar.  I just had to buy one here.

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of David Ilvedson
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:14 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Who can help me?

I looked in Merle Mason's book for his terminology of Jesse's "lock bar"
and found:  Log (Baldwin, Schimmel), Lock Rail (Sohmer), Top Bar
(Kimbell).    Wondering what Yamaha, Steinway call it?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 1/29/2007 5:43:30 AM
Subject: Re: Who can help me?


>At 08:14 AM 1/29/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have a customer with a 1920's Steinway A, and the lock bar screws 
>>are loose - I need to put in slightly larger screws because the 
>>holes are a bit enlarged. I wrote down the dimensions of the 
>>existing screws the last time I tuned the piano, but lost the 
>>information -- I think they're somewhere around 2 1/2 inches long. 
>>Does anyone know how long the screws are and their diameter?
>>
>>Jesse Gitnik
>>NYC


>Repair the stript holes...
>Longer screw will go through the lid, fatter screw probably won't fit 
>through log/bar, and neither will be easy to find or match the others,
anyway.




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