Really, Really Gradual Descent Fallboard

[Israel Stein]

At 10:20 AM 2/20/2005, David Ilvedson wrote:

>If all else fails why close the fallboard?
>
>David Ilvedson

Gasp! Choke! DUST!!!!!!  Eeek!  (Hey, it's the customer's hangup, but I 
have to fix it...)

Seriously, if someone paid $70,000 for a piano, shouldn't they expect a 
simple thing like a fallboard to work? This thing is about 3 years old...

Israel



>----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>From: Israel Stein <custos3@comcast.net>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Received: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:01:36 -0800
>Subject: Really, Really Gradual Descent Fallboard
>
>
> >List,
>
> >Has anyone encountered a problem with one of those gradual-descent
> >fallboards freezing? I have a customer with a 7 ft. Bosendorfer with one of
> >those who really has to push down very hard to close the fallboard - and
> >then really crank on it to get it open again. For what that thing cost, I
> >suspect that the fallboard should work. The piano is probably out of
> >warranty - it's the second owner. Not knowing how those mechanisms work, I
> >hesitate to start pumping lubricants into them. The only other bit of data
> >I can add is that the piano lives in a cool, moist, foggy environment.
> >Anyone have any idea how to deal with this?
>
> >Israel Stein