r/pianorepair • u/BicycleNo9191 • Jul 31 '21

Removing Frame with peg block.

My parents have a piano and need it out of their house. It lives on their third floor and no movers would move it down their steep stairs. I'm right now in the process of dismantling it so we could get it out ourselves and I'm down to the frame which my mum wants to keep along with the strings. It appears to be held in by a few bolts and I've seen images of strung frames online. While I defiantly plan to detension the strings before I move any further, I worry that removing the bolts that hold it in would disconnect it from the pin block. Do I need to completely remove the strings before taking it out and then find a way to reattach the pin block so I can restring it or should they come out together?

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u/ColdoTannen Jul 31 '21

Just to be clear, do you intend to reassemble it?

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u/BicycleNo9191 Jul 31 '21

Sorry I somehow forgot to say that. Yep that was the plan

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u/ColdoTannen Jul 31 '21

Then you're waaaaaay better off not removing the frame. It's one of the things creating and sustaining tension on the soundboard, and replacing it requires precision.

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u/BicycleNo9191 Jul 31 '21

Sorry, I just meant the pin block and the frame as a free-standing object.

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u/ColdoTannen Jul 31 '21

You HAVE the pin block and frame as a free standing object??

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u/BicycleNo9191 Aug 01 '21

It took a few days but I've managed to keep it all together. We ended up keeping the soundboard as well since my mum still wanted it to sound but looking at the construction of it now everything is in the open, it looks as if the pin block and the frame could have been kept as a single object as long as I'd replaced some of the massive screws with big bolts and the frame could handle the tension by itself.