bass bridge removal

[Farrell]

Especially if it is an upright, but also a grand, consider also if it is not a performance piano, you may get as good results for much less work with an epoxy repair.  Epoxy works great, it just may not look like a new Fazioli. What is it you have to work on there??????????????

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  Details: upright or grand? Have you examined the back or underside of the piano for screws or buttons? Generally, with care, I use a sharpened 1 1/2" putty knife as a blade to tap into the glue joint after removing screws and drilling out any dowels. I gradually tap the blade all the way down the length of the glue joint to avoid tearing out any more soundboard than necessary. I will use two blades at times, driving one in to "lever" the glue joint open, then tap another into a place a bit further down, then leap-frog them until the bridge pops off. I take off long bridges the same way, and have never had a problem. Just don't get ahead of the opening up of the glue joint. And make sure that the flat blade of the knife goes all the way under and out the other side flat to the soundboard; that'll tell you that you're not tearing soundboard wood. Good luck.

  Paul


  In a message dated 06/19/07 13:42:29 Central Daylight Time, johnsfsr at hotmail.com writes:
    I am going to give a quote to a customer on recapping a straight bass 
    bridge. I have not done one of these repairs other than when I was in 
    College too many years ago. I plan to send the bridge elsewhere to have the 
    work done. Their request was to have the bridge intact as much as possible. 
    My questions are how much labour time is expected in removing and 
    reinstalling the bridge? How is the best way to remove the bridge? 
    Many Thanks, 

    John Pengelly 
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