Larry Mayo wrote:

> ARGGH!! I just finished reinstalling the harp in a 1928 Monarch
> upright player piano, installed the bushings and am ready to restring
> it. Last night, I discovered that my kids trashed the paper on which
> I had written the stringing scale, and the height of the downbearing bar.

I have approximately 15 of these Baldwin built Manualo players.  I have two
monarchs, and one of them has been destrung.  All that information has been
recorded on my Piano World Stringing Guide sheet.  If you give me your Mailing
address I will send you a copy of this.  I also have notated on this sheet the
felting schedule, tied strings and screw sizes, tuning pin sizes and everything
needed for one person to take it apart and another one to put it back together
exactly like the factory did.  You may call me at 800-589-5824

The same piano was built as Modello, Hamilton, Howard, St. Genevive, Ellington,
Winton and probably another one or two I can't  remember.  These pianos, at
least the ones I have, are so exactly alike that the piano actions are
interchangeable by adjusting supports by 1/4".  I have not compared their
stringing scales, yet, but would expect the same.

On that Monarch, be sure you check all the timbers in the back for loose glue
joints. Every Baldwin built piano I restore seems to have all the blocks and
timbers totally unglued from each other and the soundboard frame.  This is very
important for keeping the piano together.  I once found one that had the bottom
of the plate flexed up a couple of inches in the middle of the bottom line where
a screw had stripped out of the bottom block and migrated out.  It had taken
several screws with it.  Be sure to clean all old glue off the parts before you
glue them back.  Most of them I just normally turn the piano back over and
dismantle the whole bottom row of block, beam, block, beam for regluing.

If Robbie sends me a snail mail address I will send him a copy of my stringing
guides.  He might want to copy it to the web as a graphic file.  I only require
that the Piano World label be left on this copyrighted page for uprights and one
for grands.

D. L. Bullock Piano World St. Louis