Hi All, I looked over a 1923 Chickering 5'3" grand today for a potential purchase. In pretty good shape and a fine working musical instrument in many ways. I did see something however that I've never seen before (note: I'm relatively new to tuning / tech'n, so the words 'never seen before' is a regular occurrence for me). I searched the pianotech archive, but didn't get a hit. Sorry I don't have / didn't take a picture. Walking around the treble end of the piano and looking down inside the rim as it follows the S bend towards the back, I saw a gap between the inside rim wall and the plate. At first I was 'has this separated?' Is this a repair? I could see the floor through the approx 3/8" (not measured). Just through the S bend section. I then noticed there were a couple of wedges, spaced and fit nicely in the gap, that kind of looked like original equipment..so perhaps this was the way Chickerings of this era were designed / built? Hmmm. Any experience on this kind of Chickering gap, or this kind of problem/repair? Many Thanks, Andy Murphy PTG Associate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090504/b734277e/attachment-0001.html>
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