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Greetings all,

Saw this piano yesterday with what appears to be saw kerfs in the bass bridge shelf.  Was this factory, or did the shelf split along the grain of the wood?  The bass bridge is definitely loose on the shelf because you can see in the pics that the bottom edge of the shelf moved down below the bottom of the bass bridge.  Piano has myriad other issues:  pitch one - half tone flat, rusty strings, 

 parts spacing etc.  Has not seen service for a considerable time.

 I deem this piano economically not repairable, but the piano teacher says that this is a fine  piano and should be repaired.  Sadly, the customer traded a Yamaha console if great condition for this PSO POS upon the advice of the teacher without asking me.

Just curious about the splits in the shelf, factory or otherwise.

I am not going to attempt repair.

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Wes

The saw kirf is a factory cut. I've seen it many times on bridge aprons. 

After carefully looking at the bridge, it doesn't appear to me that it has moved. What you're seeing is the soundboard not having finish on it where the bridge is glued down. 

The strings I can see do not seem to have rust on them.  

Can't comment on the rest of the problems you mentioned, but this looks like a relatively newer piano, maybe 25 - 30 years old. If it's a console of that age, they were pretty nice instruments. 

Wim