fallboard stuck

[Dean May]

You might also try removing the stringer- the wood panel behind the
fallboard. Sometimes you can take those off and that would give you access
to see what is going on there.

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359
PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272
Terre Haute IN  47802

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Marcel Carey
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:47 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: RE: fallboard stuck

Check the lyre screws. Often enough someone mixes the legs and lyre
screws and they prevent action removal. Just unscrew them and see if
that helps.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Wally Scherer
> Sent: 22 fevrier, 2004 09:17
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: fallboard stuck
>
>
> I have a new customer, a restaurant, with an old
> Brambach baby grand. Not too bad shape - new strings
> and pins within the last few years, I'd say.
>
> Out of the left side by the bass hammers comes a cord,
> fairly new, evidently from a heater bar under the pin
> block area.
>
> Trouble is I can't get the fallboard to close, and
> therefore can't get it off for action removal. (Needs
> regulation.) It only moves about a quarter of an inch
> with all the screws out from under the cheek blocks,
> etc.
>
> I've checked with a mirror but can't see anything
> catching. I've felt with a bent coathanger behind the
> fallboard, but can't feel anything in the way. I can
> see enough between the top of the fallboard and bottom
> of the pinblock to see that nothing is blocking
> anything there.
>
> I guess the next step is to hire some strong men to
> pick up the piano, after removing the lyre and rear
> leg, tilt it toward the rear, and shake it to see if
> anything falls out from the fallboard area.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Wally Scherer, Palm Beach County, Florida
>
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