"Downer" piano

[Farrell]

Paul McCloud got it. You said it was a lag screw. Drill the area out, cut a hardwood (hard maple would be fine - or oak or ash, etc.) plug and epoxy the plug in there. Drill your screw hole, butter up the lag screw and drive it home. Back in business, just like new.

As for other damage, just survey all the joints you can, looking for movement. You'd be surprised how much of a whack a decent piano can take - it's probably just fine.

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Trasoff 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:58 AM
  Subject: "Downer" piano


  It was a classic scene I walked into--A community center where the stage area was part of a larger floor space. I came in as a musician playing (not piano) as part of a dance accompaniment ensemble, and there it was, a 6' Petrof that the house staff had tried to move off the stage area into another room by just shoving and rolling it from the front, which was fine until they came to the transition from the bare floor to a carpeted area bordered with a raised edge and, yes, they had snapped off the rear leg and the piano was down at the back end. I wish I had had my camera, or could at least get my cell phone camera to work.


  I left a card, so it's possible I may get called. My question is this: I looked at the amputated rear leg, and it looks like the large lag screws it was attached with had just been ripped out of their holes. How would one fill or otherwise reconstruct those holes in the back of the case so that the screws would have something to be screwed into? Also, what other damage might you typically look for after a piano takes a fall like that? The leg itself looked completely intact. I didn't check anything further under the piano at the time.


  Thanks!
  David


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