On 10/24/2010 10:57 AM, David Boyce wrote: > I fitted new lid hinges to a customer's old 7' Bechtein yesterday. At > some point during a period when the piano was in storage, half of one of > the hinges along with the hinge pin, mysteriously went missing, as did > the pin for the lid prop.. > > How did I manage the whole thing on my own in the customer's home? I'm > not sure! I have a Yamaha G7 (the only one I've ever seen) in a church basement choir room. Twice now, I've removed the lid and remounted the hinges - my myself. They like to mic the thing for recording, with a big fat cord that they position near a lid hinge, then close the lid and pry the hinge screws out. I use a moving pad or two as a buffer, and can get the lid off and back on alone without further damage. I do the same with 9' Steinways, but I think the weight of a CFIII lid (polyester) would send me looking for another lifting body. Limitations, after all, are real. The trick is in not defining them forensically by the resulting debris field after the fact. Sometimes we do that, sometimes not... Ron N
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