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ollieken
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:20 pm    Post subject: Plate raised Reply with quote
I have a fiddle that the plate where the sound post sit`s is raised at fhe F hole I think it is from having the sound post too long a long time ago.
I have been making it a little shorter over time to see if it will stay down .
Is it possible to push it down somehow without cracking the plate
Its 116 years old I have had it for over 30 years
Oh if I loosen the strings the sound post falls down . Any one have a fix
or just leave it alone . Ken
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Michael Darnton
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The tendency over time is for the E side of the top to go up, and the G side to go down. If it's extreme, you aren't doing any harm by fitting a shorter post, but that may not fix the situation.
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ollieken
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:05 pm    Post subject: Raised top Reply with quote
Ok Thank you Michael for the reply guess that i will just keep it the way it is with a shorter post It`s not that bad that i cant live with it Ken
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