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<font size=3>Clyde,<br><br>
I suspect she meant the upper 'nut' or termination piece. Many old
uprights have a strip of wood just under the tuning pins with
bridge pins providing side bearing. That would explain the
"near the loop" explanation.<br><br>
I've had to replace those that had cracked up.<br><br>
Don Mannino RPT<br><br>
At 07:21 PM 2/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Friends,<br><br>
A piano-tuner beginner was trying to explain something to me she
found<br>
in an old Baldwin upright. If I understood the description
correctly,<br>
the bass string hitch pins were in wood rather than the cast iron<br>
plate. Was there ever anything like this? I haven't seen the
piano.<br>
Apparently the wood is all split up. My hunch was she's talking
about<br>
the bass bridge, but she said where the string ends at the loop.<br>
Responses?<br><br>
Regards,<br>
Clyde<br><br>
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