Plate screws

[Newton Hunt]

Sentenced!  There were four of these monsters in the rental
stock of a dealer I worked for back in the mid '60s.  I used
to hide the things back in the dark recesses of the basement
but they would find the things and I would have to tune them
before they went out.  Gods all over I hated those pianos!

		Newton

Don wrote:
> 
> Hi Newton,
> 
> Is that serviced--or sentenced (jail time for the designer?)
> 
> At 10:11 AM 6/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >> but I can't recall that any piano with its original
> >> case calls for the removal of more than six screws.
> >
> >Then you have not been living right.
> >
> >I have serviced several Wurlitzers designed by an architect
> >that required some 24 screw be removed before it could be
> >tuned and another 25 before the action could be removed.