Murderous Fallboard

[J W Stein]

HTML MessageI find this to be a rather common problem with Yamahas and some Kawais... I usually remove the fallboard when I tune and give the customer a little piece of felt that can be sandwiched between fallboard and side of piano when it is open.  The wedge will be sure to hold fallboard open with risk of injury, unless, the board is accidentally yanked downward.

Jon

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Isaac Sadigursky 
  To: tune4u at earthlink.net ; 'Pianotech List' 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:54 AM
  Subject: RE: Murderous Fallboard


  Hi,Alan!    In my second response to the Fallboard problem I will siggest to look for loose screws holding the spring,stripped screw holes will cause the spring to move away from the fallboard slot and make it fall un-controllably.Plug the stripped screwhole with shoe pegs,available from Schaff. Second possibility:bending the spring forward to in crease tension and friction.

  #3]Make sure cheeck block screws are tight.If cheeck block moves-this will affect the spring. Good Luck.. Isaac

   


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  From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Alan R. Barnard
  Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:53 PM
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Subject: Murderous Fallboard

   

  I have a music teacher customer with a Yamaha grand that has a poorly counter-balanced (or some problem) fallboard. It has made several credible attempts to chop hands off young students.

   

  It appears to have never had any sort of close-retarding mechanism, let alone a Soft-Close device.

   

  Tried Googling up a solution, 'cause I know it's been on the list, but I got endless chains of stuff and no answers (and no hits when I added "site:www.ptg.org" for some reason.)

   

  Someone help me out here, please. What's a good fix?


  Alan Barnard
  Salem, MO

  Good Advice "Don't Believe Everything You Think"
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