fallboard stuck

[gordon stelter]

Hi Wally,
    Could this be like the one I had, with screws
holding the fallboard on via brass slats inserted in
the fallboard ends, and visible by looking at the end
with the fallboard at a 45 degree angle? Perhaps if
you could get at those screws, you could slide the
fallboard off the slats, then unscrew the cheekblocks
and keyslip and pull the action?
     Thump

--- Wally Scherer <afinetune@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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