List: I recently had a brief look at a customer's piano that had the strangest fallboard mechanism that I have ever seen. It is a Kohler and Campbell spinet from the early 60's. There is a 1/4" metal rod the length of the fallboard, under it, on which is mounted three 1" dowel sections. The doweled rod is slung on three heavy cords, the ends of which are screwed down, and the fallboard travel is limited by yet another heavy cord held by screws at the end. Somehow, the fallboard is supposed to roll on the doweled rod, then stop at full extension. It does not work at all, the rod is just slung under the fallboard and gets in the way. Either the mechanism to hold the rod is partially missing, or I have not had the time to figure this one out. Can anyone help, and perhaps give me a clue as to what is supposed to happen? Has anyone else seen this? Thanks. B. Simon Phoenix
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