<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = 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=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name="PostalCode"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> Guy,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks for the info.  Sounds = like a simple repair!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Jeremy<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: = Nichols [mailto:nicho@zianet.com] Sent: Tuesday, November = 22, 2005 7:47 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Wounded = piano<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> At 11:54 AM 11/22/2005 -0700, you wrote: <o:p></o:p> Hello list,   I was looking at one of our university s <st1:place = w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place> s as a candidate for restringing, and discovered the structural damage = pictured in the attachment.  Any ideas on how this could have = happened?  <o:p></o:p> Gremlins, moving stress, any number of things that don't matter. (it's = in the past!) <o:p></o:p> Any suggestions for repair (I don t want to replace = the sound-board)?  <o:p></o:p> Yeah, that part of the board is cosmetic anyway. Your biggest issue may = be sostenueto adjustment. Take off the lid, clamp a two-by-four down to the = top of the board, end-wise along side the rim as close as you can get, and see = if the assembly will drop that  4 or 5 mm it seems that is lifted. If so, = let it up and squeeze some epoxy in there. and re-clamp. Or not, you know. If = it is "solid", and not buzzing, the sos reg can be dealt with. <o:p></o:p>   It doesn t seem to have affected the sound of the piano negatively.  = The piano has got a big sound with good sustain, but it s been around the = block a few times.  It s a Model SF made in 1920.  <o:p></o= :p> Or '56, as you corrected. One of my faves. <o:p></o:p> Jeremy<o:p></o:p> Good luck, Guy Nichols, RPT <o:p></o:p>   Jeremy Gould, Piano Technician <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType = w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Northern Colorado</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> = of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Music</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> Frasier Hall 3 , Campus <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street = w:st="on">Box</st1:Street> 28</st1:address> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Greeley</st1:City>, = <st1:State w:st="on">CO</st1:State>  <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">80639</st1:PostalCode></st1:place> 970-351-1132   _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: <a = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora=autourl>https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a><o:p></= o:p> </div> </body> </html>