omg that was unbelievable!!! great undertaking - Ive done that on the rim several times, with exactly same method, never thought a plate could bend that much. nice work. i'm a huge fan.
Congratulation. You managed to do it in a quite short time including putting it in tune again. Hope the glue has dried completely. Nice instrument, mayby slightly too bright for my taste. In any case a lot of compliment for the job done. Regards from Croatia
I have similar issue on an old player piano. The player works but It is pretty rough and restoration is out of my price range but I would like to get it tune-able. As on this one, the top board appears to be glued to the pinblock. Do you have any tips/techniques, I can use to remove the top board without destroying everything?
Explain how the restoration got as far as it did without addressing the bowed out pin block ?? A piano that old frequently has pin block issues. Should had just replaced it having a customer spend that much money spent on the restoration to begin with.
Agree, as a pianotechnician myself, i was shocked they spent so much effort rebuilding that piano without replacing the pinblock. Piano as old as this was most likely designed for lower tension as well, A49 wasnt tuned to 440Hz before 1926 in USA and only in 1934 it was generaly recommended to build pianos in this way (ISO norm even later). So given this fact and the type of cast iron plate, it was designed for A49 bein tuned to 435Hz. Obviously this means lower tension.
omg that was unbelievable!!! great undertaking - Ive done that on the rim several times, with exactly same method, never thought a plate could bend that much. nice work. i'm a huge fan.
Fantastic patch! Great video. Keep the videos coming!!
Congratulation. You managed to do it in a quite short time including putting it in tune again. Hope the glue has dried completely. Nice instrument, mayby slightly too bright for my taste. In any case a lot of compliment for the job done. Regards from Croatia
the new pins, probably longer then the originals, seem to stand out at the bottom of the pinblock thats probaly why it came Off?
I have similar issue on an old player piano. The player works but It is pretty rough and restoration is out of my price range but I would like to get it tune-able. As on this one, the top board appears to be glued to the pinblock. Do you have any tips/techniques, I can use to remove the top board without destroying everything?
Oof the bolts going through the labels did make me cringe a bit, but i guess there was no way of avoiding that?
I thought it was a cast plate in front of the pinblock. I really surprise to see that it could bend that much. I guess this piano is even older.
Customers like that make for a great “pick me up” on the hard days.
Explain how the restoration got as far as it did without addressing the bowed out pin block ?? A piano that old frequently has pin block issues. Should had just replaced it having a customer spend that much money spent on the restoration to begin with.
Agree, as a pianotechnician myself, i was shocked they spent so much effort rebuilding that piano without replacing the pinblock. Piano as old as this was most likely designed for lower tension as well, A49 wasnt tuned to 440Hz before 1926 in USA and only in 1934 it was generaly recommended to build pianos in this way (ISO norm even later). So given this fact and the type of cast iron plate, it was designed for A49 bein tuned to 435Hz. Obviously this means lower tension.