CA rescues another soundboard

[Dean May]

I was tuning a 20 year old Wurly console last week. Customer complained of a
problem around F4 to C5, but she was Asian and a little difficult to
understand. I played it a little before tuning and it was horribly out, so I
assumed the tuning was the source of her complaint.

 

As I was tuning through that section I started hearing the problem- a nice
buzzy fuzzy overtone. The ribs all looked tight but I suspected it was a
soundboard problem- even though the piano looked like new. When pressing
near the top of the soundboard it seemed to affect the buzz.

 

I sprayed accelerator on all the rib joints and around the rim. After a
minute I squirted CA glue on all the joints, starting with the upper rim
joint. That has to be done while the bottle is still full of glue as I was
squirting it vertically into the joint. 1 oz of glue was all it took to do
all the ribs and all the way around the rim (I have used as much as 2-4 oz
when there is a lot of rib separation, along with lots of accelerator).
Total time about 10 minutes. 

 

Think about how much time and effort it would have take to solve that
problem without thin CA. 

 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

 

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