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thank you very much for your quick and detailed answer Colin. I don't want to disclose here exactly which type of piano I am planning to build, but the task is manageable. My friend is more in the business of rebuilding pianos than tuning, eventhough he tunes on a regular basis as many people do. He...

The frame is in constant compression due to the strings pulling the ends together. The cracks appear due to stress relief in the castng, often at a point where there is a weakness of one sort or another (e.g. a void or an inclusion). not quite true because the strings pull slightly upward (because ...

hello everyone I'm new to this forum and I'm french so I hope you will excuse my sometimes bizarre english. I am in the complex process of building a grand piano just for "fun", and I was hoping to get some advises here. I am not a piano technician, I just have a lot of interest in the fie...