Well, unless you plan to acquire your own BC piano, you'll probably have to remove it at some point, and do it in front of the customer. As long as you take precautions not to force anything (more than should be necessary, anyhow... like getting a typical vertical action away from the action bracket bolts) and think ahead about what you'll do with it once you get it out (like, does it look like your action cradle will accommodate it). I'd be sure the customer knows that these days it's a very uncommon style of action, so it's not unusual that you've never removed one before, but that you're a professional piano technician with mechanical aptitude, so you can figure it out just fine thankyouverymuch.. At least that's what I would do... I've yet to encounter a BC, much less had to remove the action. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote: > For those of you who remembered my post about bridle straps last week..... > > The piano in question is actually a Bluthner birdcage. Now, I was prepared > to replace the straps with cork, or, if no hole in the butt catcher, to > remove the action and use the standard type. However, since I am dealing > with a birdcage, would the spring clip straps be an option in this > situation? I just didn't feel like trying to remove a birdcage action for > the first time in front of a customer. > > Thank you, thank you, thank you! > > ***TODD PIANO WORKS* > Matthew Todd, Piano Technician > (979) 248-9578 > http://www.toddpianoworks.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090723/610c0ed2/attachment.htm>
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