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Well, that's it. At least you can see what some of the work that might be necessary in the rebuilding of your piano. Hopefully, it won't involve all of this! Next is the voicing of the hammers, regulating, tuning, tuning, tuning, - you get the picture.... I hope I didn't put anyone to sleep...

Last pin....

Bass bridge treatment....ALL of these srings are tied, but that was done at the factory....

Bass strings...

close-up of the cloth...

Then it's just a matter of pounding in all of those pins stretching the strings as you progress with a string stretcher (for real), and bringing up the tension. The towel serves to silence the strings while you're banging on the pins - you don't need to listen to THAT too! While you add strings...

I only have one "tied" treble string. The first one. I did tie this myself after much practice. The rest of the strings loop around the hitch pin and head back up to another tuning pin.

This is why I "overbuild". Those are supports (including part of the old pin block)to take all of the pounding in of 245 tuning pins....

They get covered with felt....

Ok, restringing... Plate once again installed in the case. That's black paint on those hitch pins, and no I didn't mess up...

...and screwed to the remaining keybed. There are additional supports on the inside of the case as well.

The rail for the player mechanism is allegadley supposed to be enough to compensate for the loss of the structure after cutting the slot according to the manufacturer - but I'm kinda of a "overbuild" kinda guy so I routed out an area for a 1/4 inch steel angle iron to be laid.

Slot cut.

Guide rails for the saw. Again, the measurements for this had to be done from the top then transposed (or whatever) onto the bottom. I had to made alterations to the keyframe, (cutting off the back inch and a half), the key blocks which will now do all of the alignment of the keybed/action since...

Prior to installing the finished plate and anything else, it was time to make the necessary cuts in the keybed for the later addition of the MIDI player guts. Three Hundred pound case laid upside-down to cut the slot.

More regulating/setting. That's the name of the guy - in red - had some nerve writing his name in there after messing it up!

Jig I made to set the various measurements of hammer travel/letoff etc. That cardboard in front is the height of the strings in relation to the keybed. That is how I set the jig. No, I didn't forget to felt the other key ends (green felt) - there ain't no dampers at the high treble strings.

Refelted and assembled dampers...

Hand polishing of the lift wires:

Damper rebuilding: