Now it was time to mount the new bridge and the keyboard action to the body and locate all the bridge and hitch pins. I forgot to get a photo of my set-up for this, but I included a rough sketch of it above. It amounted to a piece of .012” music wire, tied at one end to a large steel brick (about 20 lbs.) that sat at the head of the instrument on the bench. The wire ran the length of the instrument, off the tail end, and off the end of the bench. From it dangled another smaller steel brick (about 10 lbs.), to keep the wire tight and straight. I temporarily mounted the keyboard assembly (shown in semi-transparent "see-through" view in the image). Then I sighted from the tail end, aligning the wire with each hammer and damper and marking the locations of the bridge pins on the bridge and the hitch pins on the tail block. 46 keys/60 strings worth of this only took about…oh…forever! Well, it seemed like it, anyway. At any rate, locating both ends from scratch wasn’t a quick little job.

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