Ron, I should have thought to replace the worn, chipped parts. My solution was to put srews into the wedges so the suckers won't come out. Works so far. I also heard a horror story of an M where all 3 legs fell off! Wish I could have seen that. Jim I've run into this too, where the trapezoidal plate wedge system had been allowed to get loose enough, often enough, to chip the edges enough that there was just barely enough mechanical support left there to hold the legs on at best. I fortunately (though by a narrow margin) still know a guy who was underneath a B when the leg plates parted company, and was saved from likely lethal tenderization by the reflexes of the two people helping to roll the piano to the target position. I'm not sure what he was doing under there, but he got an adrenalin rush he'll remember for a long time when the leg went. I replaced leg plates all around VERY shortly after that. This isn't the only instance I've seen of this, so I'd be happy to tote the extra load of an allen wrench if the more recent system prevents this. The last local Steinway dealer followed all the other local Steinway dealers into starvation and oblivion over 15 years ago, so I don't see many new Steinways here for comparison. Ron N
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