Yamaha verticals

[Marcel Carey]

Ron, 

I usually carry small blocs of wood and epoxy + screw them to the back
of the panel. I feel very upset with their bottom board design as well.
They made it so wide that it doesn't come out unless you twist, slide,
pull and whatever. It makes me say not so nice words every time. What
were they thinking I ask myself. I guess piano designers never had to
service them.

Marcel Carey, 
Sherbrooke, QC

> I tuned a T116 yesterday, and I've got to ask. Why did Yamaha 
> design something with a forty pound combination front and 
> fallboard and not give us a block on the top back side of the 
> front board to use as a secure handle to lift the thing out? 
> The P22s have the block the lock is mounted in up there, and 
> it's a perfect handle, but the T116 isn't as accommodating. If 
> you can't manage to weasel a few fingertips under the name 
> board felt in front (never mind finding the balance point), 
> that leaves the hinged fallboard strip to use as a handle (and 
> again finding the balance point). I don't like that. It's too 
> much weight to put on those hinges, and the strip doesn't come 
> square to the fallboard. It angles out some, which does little 
> for security of grip. Folks with wet sticky hands won't be 
> overly endangered, but hands as dry as mine typically are 
> offer no traction on polished polyester surfaces, so it's just 
> a matter of time before the tuning fee goes back into a 
> polyester repair job. Maybe I'll try to find a couple of very 
> large tree frogs I could stick on and use as temporary handles.
> 
> How do you dry handed 140 pounders out there get into these 
> things without generating polyester debris fields?
> 
> Ron N
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