Why would you think that the bass end would be heaviest with the plate out of the piano if you agree that when you lift a plate out of a piano that the center of gravity is closer to the treble than the bass? Doesn't seem to make much sense. Terry Farrell On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: > This is true! A nasty job to find the center of gravity to be sure. > Now with plate out, I would think, then, that the bass end would be > heaviest, correct? > > Paul > > > Well, when you lift a plate out of the piano, don't you find that > the center of gravity is closer to the treble than the bass? > > Marcel > > > From: gnewell at ameritech.net > > To: pianotech at ptg.org > > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:39:19 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Weight question > > > > Roger, > > I don't know why this is but if you dead lift each leg one at a time > > you will find that the treble is the heaviest. > > > > Greg Newell > > Greg's Piano For -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100908/bc12bf89/attachment.htm>
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