>...The back and front lid overhangs are an additional >1.25"x2 = 2.5", accounting for that extra you noticed. Seem the >"standard" case length doesn't include the lid overhangs... > >Stephen Birkett Fortepianos I know the back part of the top lid overhangs the rim of the piano some, Stephen, but am I to understand you are saying the front part of the lid overhangs further than your keyslip? The way I have been measuring grand pianos is from a line drawn perpendicular to the front of the keyslip and then measuring to the furtherest extended place on the top lid. I hope I explained that correctly. Is that not the way others measure the length of grand pianos? Keith A. McGavern kam544@ionet.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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