Is the split the light-colored horizontal line? If so, is it causing a problem? I would be very surprised is such a split would harm anything. I is likely not caused by some sort of huge piano case stress (and the whole piano risks collapse because of it), but rather the wood just dried out a bit after construction and split open from stresses internal to the piece of wood - and not related to piano case stress. Is it an older piano (kinda looks that way)? Is there any reason to think this split occurred recently? Is it not likely that the split has been there for many decades? This might be a good application for the S&S marketing pitch: Every piano is unique. Every piano has its own personality. Franz Moore tells a story about a lady who returned a piano that her technician said had some sort of plate defect. They swapped it out for her and she never liked another piano as much as the one with the "defect". She eventually tried to get it back, but by then that unique, fabulous, one-fo-a-kind, super-piano had been discovered by someone else and snapped up. So you see, the moral of the story is that if a piano manufacturer with a really good marketing department make a boo-boo on a piano - it is a plus! Somethin' to think about anyway.... Terry Farrell On Oct 10, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Laura Olsen wrote: > So, what to do about a split brace? > > Laura Olsen > > <photo.JPG>
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