[CAUT] Steinway action removal

[David Ilvedson]

On each side of the fallboard will be a brass rail.  Remove screws and the fallboard will slide out towards you...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Bob Hull" <hullfam5@yahoo.com>
To: caut@ptg.org
Received: 12/8/2005 12:35:29 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Steinway action removal


>Caut List,

>I encountered a 1926  Steinway grand yesterday that
>used to be a player and I could not get the fall board
>off.  It was not attached to the cheek blocks but
>seems only to rest  on  a pin on each side.  The piano
>was donated to the school but has a  lot of wear plus
>about size 5/o tuning  pins.

>This piano seems to be about the same size as an M. 
>It says Miniature  on the plate and has the extra
>space between the front edge of the  plate and the
>front of  the "stretcher".   With the extra long keys 
>I wonder if the action geometry is much different.  It
>seems like it would be worth rebuilding.  The tone is
>decent for that  size of  grand.
>Any advice  on  removing this fall board would be
>welcome.


>Bob Hull 


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