<HEAD><TITLE>sunken tenor bridge</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Try screwing some weights under the soundboard into the end of the bridge.</DIV> <DIV>Brass weights are classy.</DIV> <DIV>Lead weights are cheap, and weigh just as much as brass, ounce for ounce.</DIV> <DIV>Ed Sutton<BR><BR><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Benjamin Treuhaft <BLT@IGC.ORG><BR>Sent: Aug 17, 2006 7:20 AM <BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org <BR>Subject: sunken tenor bridge <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD></ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY>dear list,  A nicely restored good no-name grand was given to our non-profit.  It<BR>has new block, strings, and a shimmed board.  We installed a set of<BR>Ronsen hammers and regulated it.  Now we notice the lowest end of the<BR>tenor bridge has no downbearing, and the first few tenor notes thwack<BR>loudly on a hard blow.  We don't want to install a new bridge cap. <BR>Is there a cheap fix for this?  thanks,    Ben<BR><FONT size=1><BR>"Dear Mr. Treuhaft, I like the idea and enclose a check for $100, which in Cuba, thanks to Communism, will get you quite a lot." -William F. Buckley Jr. on Send A Piana To Havana<BR></FONT><BR></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>