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David Love wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Here's the situation:</font></div>
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<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Belly bracing joints are coming apart
and need to be reglued and doweled. </font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Some separation of the soundboard
panel from the ribs.</font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">A few cracks in the board.</font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Pin block (beech) has been shimmed
and partially plugged. Small crack in bass section. Needs plugging or
replacing, I think, as oversized pins don't tend to do to well in beech
blocks.</font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Delamination of the bass bridge cap
along about half its length. Some delamination in the upper treble
bridgecap as well.</font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Minimal but positive bearing, little
or no crown in the panel.</font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Don't know how it sounded as I never
heard it before.</font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">Customer wants it functional for
least cost.</font></div>
<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">She has had Christopher Ris, Frank
Bettinger, John Callahan, me and you for opinions. </font></div>
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<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">I think it needs a new board, new and
reinforced belly bracing, new pinblock. One could probably get by with
less with no guarantees and lots of disclaimers (remember those plates
can be pretty fragile). The senior Ostrovsky doesn't think it needs a
new board but he may be from a tradition that doesn't replace
soundboards ever. </font></div>
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<div><font face="MS Sans Serif">What do you think?</font></div>
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Honest opinion.... Get her to buy a new piano.<br>
RicB<br>
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<div>David Love</div>
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