Tilting on the lyre

John Dewey jdent@soltec.net
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 06:58:46 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Guy, Karen, and Tor Nichols <nicho@roadrunner.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: Tilting on the lyre


snip


 the most common damage we see
>is a crushed left corner. Polyester pianos have a neat habit of loosing
>chunks of finish when the wood changes dimension.


Big snip

One solution to this is to make a corner protector of 1.5"  aluminum angle
lined with blanket fleece that will screw to the under side of the key bed.
This is one of the nifty things I will show in my class at the PTG
convention in KC.

John Dewey
associate



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