[pianotech] How do you ladies do it?

[Ron Nossaman]

Barbara Richmond wrote:
> I grip the top with one hand and with the other, grab (somehow) just 
> below the fallboard (open, of course).  Lift up & out. Granted, I'm 
> short, so I don't lift it up much.  :-)   I think I said something not 
> very lady-like the first time I encountered that design, but I tune a 
> lot of those now. 

That's how I do it too. Aggravation over stupid design doesn't 
seem to make my hands damp enough to grip the polyester (lucky 
Chuck), so I lift with dry slick fingertips, and mutter a lot 
of very not lady-like things every time I have to do it. I 
can't imagine why they didn't hinge the lid on the end too, 
while they were at it.
Ron N