Ron asked: "Quite so. I'm curious though. Have any of you found action problems you could attribute directly to setting a piano up on the lyre? Any actual evidence of key bed damage from this? I never have, but there are still an infinity of places I haven't been. So I was wondering if this is real, or yet another of those "intuitive" things. I know broken lyres and crushed corners on bottom plates are real, I'm just wondering where all this concern for the key bed comes from." Ron N, The short answer: Yes. The long answer: After a mover set up a 9' Steinway, using the lyre as a pivot, I checked the piano and found the sostenuto mechanism and guide to have jammed. A real pisser to get the action out in order to fix it! I think he had the pedal rod jammed in, somehow, that in turn did the damage. Broke one of the sides of the guide for the monkey and bent the sostenuto rod itself. Damned mess...an hour before concert!@##$%%^ Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091126/0780be8b/attachment.htm>
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