<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><BR>Hi Bruce,<BR>  <BR> One thing that just came to mind is that you might insert a rubber grommet in the hole at the bottom of the lyre. This would act as a spring so you would have support and maybe would prevent the top part from buzzing. I don't like the glue solution since it might interfere with  future adjustments of the braces.<BR>  <BR> Marcel Carey, RPT<BR> Sherbrooke, QC<BR>  <BR> <DIV>I cannot say that I have great confidence in this being a long lasting repair.  On this instrument, I do not want to replace the supports with traditional lyre sticks.  It is on a raised stage in a small theatre and I do not want to drill into the poly finish.  The pedal lyre is at face level for the audience and anything I do down there will be quite visible.  I may epoxy that hinge joint so it cannot move.  Is there any reason it needs to be hinged aside from factory production ease?  What has worked for you?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bruce Dornfeld, RPT</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:bdornfeld@earthlink.net">bdornfeld@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV>North Shore Chapter</DIV><br /><hr /> <a href='' target='_new'></a></body> </html>