[pianotech] How do you ladies do it?

[Barbara Nobbe]

James, 

On models similar to the Yamaha T121, where the front panel is just as you described, I undo the side hinges, then reach my right arm behind the board, grabbing it from the bottom to lift it up off the bottom pegs and rest it briefly on the cheek blocks.  Then I reposition to get a better grip by using my left hand to hold from underneath the front center of the fallboard and my right hand holds the top of the front panel. 

Barbara Nobbe, RPT
Pitch Perfect Piano Tuning & Repair
barbara at pitchperfectpianos.com
859-489-4793

-----Original Message-----
From: "James Grebe" <jamesgrebe at charter.net>

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:36:14 
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] How do you ladies do it?


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
>