At 07:31 PM 11/5/2004, you wrote: >Another one of my fun appointments this week was an >almost-impossible-to-open upright. Nothing out of the ordinary about this >piano, just your average console. Except that some DEAR soul had for some >unknown reason gone and removed the lid hinges and replaced them with >unbendable thick L-shaped pieces of steel held in place by thick rusting, >stripped, allen-wrench bolts. *frustration and strife*. This was found mostly on Everett Series 10 and 11 "Institutional Uprights", although it did show up on a few of their home models from time to time. It was, in fact, a factory thing... Horace
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