[pianotech] How do you ladies do it?

[James Grebe]

I, too, wonder how the ladies remove the larger front panels where the music 
desk is one piece with the fallboard.  Maybe I am just weak.
James
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wimblees at aol.com>
To: <Pianotech at PTG.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:16 PM
Subject: [pianotech] How do you ladies do it?


> How do you take off the bottom panel when there are 2?springs?holding the 
> thing in place? I've got a big wing span, and strong thumbs, but sometimes 
> that's not enough to push up the springs and remove the board at the same 
> time, especially when the springs are rusty, which most of them are here 
> in Hawaii. Up to now I push up on one, and pull the board towards me a 
> little, and then try to push up the other side. But I wonder if there is 
> another way to do this. This is not to imply that this has to do with you 
> ladies being the?"weaker" sex,?but most of you are not as big as I am and 
> don't have the wing span. ?
>
>
> Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
> Piano Tuner/Technician
> Mililani, Oahu, HI
> 808-349-2943
> Author of:
> The Business of Piano Tuning
> available from Potter Press
> www.pianotuning.com
>