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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Ron Nossaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 4/24/2011 5:40 PM, John Delacour wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>Here is a picture of the lockrail attached to the top front half on my<br>1870 Brinsmead concert grand.<br>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Any ideas? I think it most unlikely that it is simply glued on.<br></blockquote><br></div>My first thought agreed with Paul McCloud, as did my second. There's no lucid reason to mount it with keyed plates, since it needn't reasonably be easily removable. Instruments of this vintage also tend to have veneer buried hardware, for what may have seemed like a good reason at the time, but is a universal pain in the butt now - far far beyond the reasonably presumed life expectancy of the unit. I'd leave "annoying enough" alone and work around it.<br>
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<div><br><br clear="all">I agree with those who have written thus far, I suspect it might be screwed in the usual manner w/plugs over the screwheads & veneer over those. Possibly nailed but nails are not the first choice of most woodworkers unless they are brads to hold a glue joint while setting, also a possibility.</div>
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