[pianotech] How do you ladies do it?

[Randy Chastain]

Yes, thats how we do it. I'm 5'5" tall.

Randy Ellen Chastain
San Francisco Bay Area


On Aug 20, 2009, at 7:11 PM, 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.
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> near Peoria, Illinois
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:59:16 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada  
> Central
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] How do you ladies do it?
>
> James Grebe wrote:
> > 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
>
> I usually wonder if a certain 6'3" 215lb Wookie is going to be
> able to lift the stupid thing off. It's an idiot design, and
> if you don't have hands sticky as a tree frog, there aren't
> any handles to grip.
> Ron N

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