Greetings, ? I wrote about the leg repair inre a grand piano leg, if it was an upright, things are different.? The following is for grands:? ?? The Steinway legs are assembled with a large, (approx. 1 1/4 inch) dowel between the leg and the plinth,(top part).? Terry asks: What do you mean by the "top part". A plinth is a base of a cabinet. Are you talking about the top of the leg - Phil's leg is loose at the bottom. I had always been told that the upper part of the leg was a plinth, but that is a classical architecture term.? I meant the part that comes in contact with the bottom of the piano case ?" ?? The most effective repair is to drill out the wedge with a series of small, (1/8") holes, and then hammer the dowel and leg out of the socket. ?? >> I'm presuming the leg is secured into the bottom of the keybed at the top and into the "foot" of the cabinet at the bottom of the leg. (Is there a better term for the horizontal forward extension on the base of a piano into which the base of a front leg is secured - like on most old uprights?) You say to hammer the leg out of the socket - are you saying to remove the leg at the top also? ? MAKE SURE YOU ARE GLUING BACK IN THE SAME DIRECTION! >>Gluing what back in what same direction? ?? Don't reverse the top part, put it back in the original configuration. If cut properly, the wedge will be below surface so the plate will fit as originally intended and the plates will mesh properly. >>Below the surface of what? The dowel - correct? "So the plate..." what plate? What plates meshing? The piano plate? The plate for the caster? Meshing? Totally lost here.? ??? Below the surface of the mounting plate. ?? If this was a Steinway upright, everything is different.? The uprights have a mortise in the bottom of the leg that slide fits over a triangular wedge attached to the bottom extension. The top is usually just screwed to the underside of the keybed with two metal brackets.? Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html ? = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090915/cb73c430/attachment.htm>
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