<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C57C7F.847DE0A0"> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple = style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> Actually I have witnessed dead = notes at the end of the tenor bridge caused by bridge/soundboard separation, and = it was pretty localized. I fixed it on the spot with CA glue, spraying = accelerator first, then pushing on the bridge with a = screw driver while running the glue along the base. That was two years ago and it is = still holding. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Dean<o:p></o:p></fon= t> <st1:PersonName>Dean May</st1:PersonName>       &nbs= p;     cell 812.239.3359<o:p></o:p> PianoRebuilders.co= m   = 812.235.5272<o:p></o:p> Terre Haute = IN  = 47802<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original = Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Spalding Sent: Wednesday, June 29, = 2005 7:36 AM To: Pianotech Subject: RE: soundboard = split <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div> Brian,<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Since no-one else = has answered, I'll throw in my 2 cents.  These notes are wound bi-chords?  If that's the case, I would first eliminate the strings themselves as the cause.  There are methods of restoring some life = to old wound strings.  For example, remove the string, form a loop in one = end, and rol the loop up and down the length of the string.  Or just = measure them and buy replacements.   For $20 or $30 you'll know for sure.  I doubt very much that any soundboard damage would cause = such a specifically localised problem.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Mike<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> ----- Original Message = ----- <o:p></o:p> </div> <div style='font-color:black'> From:</span= > <a href="mailto:doepkeb@comcast.net" title="doepkeb@comcast.net">Brian = Doepke</a> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> To: = <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" = title="pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Sent:</span= > 6/28/2005 2:07:35 PM <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Subject:</s= pan> soundboard split<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> Hello = List,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> My 1965 = Wurlitzer baby grand has a couple of “dead” notes at the inside edge at the = bass strut…in other words the last 2 notes before the strut/bass = section.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have tried “juicing” them….and using a hammer iron.  Neither one = worked.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I then seated = the strings at the bridge pins.  = Nothing.<o:p></o:p> However, while = tapping the strings I noticed a crack in the soundboard that seems to follow = under the bridge except for at the very end….close to where the dead notes terminate.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Are there other = things that I can try to eliminate the “deadness” before trying to = fill the crack.  Is the crack = even an issue?  It seems to be, but = I am looking for other ideas before tackling filling the = crack.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I can’t = even see it from the bottom side because of a wooden support in the = “nose” of the piano.<o:p></o:p> Does anyone have = any ideas of how I should proceed?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></fon= t>     </i= > <= i> Brian P. Doepke<o:p></o:p>    &= nbsp;  A.A.A. Piano Works, Inc<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>