I usually do full board/bridge jobs where the finished pinned bridge is applied to the board...ie there is no pinning or hammering done insitu to the installed board. However, I'm doing more partial jobs now, and see this trend continuing as the economy becomes more difficult. So...wedging a board, while driving bridge pins seems like a simple task. But, in the tenor and bass areas of the board,which have much more movement because of longer spans, I have not come up with a way to really wedge the board so it doesn't loosen up and start bouncing around, after just a few unisons.
Any tricks out there on better ways to wedge the board...seems like a no brainer, but, I have not come up with a good way to do this yet. I wedge between beams and ribs under the bridge, and also put go bars, floor to rib in high excursion areas of the board. I find the go bars boingle out pretty often.
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Jim Ialeggio
grandpianosolutions.com
Shirley, MA
978 425-9026
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