Fallboard Locks

[Greg Newell]

Ron Torrella wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 jpiesik@arinc.com wrote:
>
> >      What's a good piano lock for institutional pianos?
>
> We use the Hands Off! Fallboard Lock and <knock knock> I haven't seen one
> get ripped off of the case or broken.  The only problem I've had is one
> lock that started acting up (replaced it) and the darned gremlins that
> love to take it off of the piano (students and faculty alike claiming to
> have locked it when they finished, of course!).  Pianotek sells 'em (page
> D13) for $49.95 each.  A good investment if you can train the users to
> reattach it when they finish.
>
> Regarding those bent steel "locks", while I was at U of Illinois, we had
> to repair/rebend those *^&%! things regularly.  Determined musicians, I
> must say!
>
>                              Ron Torrella, RPT
>                         Assistant Piano Technician
>                           University of Michigan
>                               School of Music



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				Greg
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