Maybe Julia has some previous experience with K & Bs. The first one I rebuilt (which will be the last K & B I'll ever rebuild) came from North Carolina and the treble section of the long bridge turned to potato chips when I removed the strings. For some reason the grain of the cap went athwartships to the root. Tom Cole Farrell wrote: > The piano you have in mind is a Krannich & Bach. Yes, I guess you need > to say more. What's the problem with it besides it being old (and it > has funky whippens)? How would tuning the piano to standard pitch > cause the bridge to pop off (I guess I'd be assuming here that there > is not oodles of negative string bearing)?
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