Story & Clark console about 40 years old. Tenor and up tone was what one would expect. Bass was dramatically thinner/weaker - suspected something was wrong. Looked at the bass bridge and noticed that the bridge had moved - the jog of the bridge pins and the totally unglued bridge caused the tenor end of the bridge to move downward and half-inch or so and the bass end to move upward an equal amount. Dropped the tension on the strings and wiggled the bridge out of there and found zero evidence of any glue ever being there. Maybe there was some and it just soaked into the wood and somehow left no trace, but it sure looked VERY clean and glue-free to me! And this puppy wasn't even screwed to the apron. The little ridge you see on the apron where the upper surface of the bridge was is NOT glue squeeze-out, but rather varnish that was applied to the apron. Is it an epidemic? Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0392.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 109269 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130206/2202eed2/attachment-0001.jpg>
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