Slow Fall Fallboards

[Garret E. Traylor]

I wonder if contacting Alan Vincent at Geneva International, he may have a
solution? I sure remember the Petrof/Weinbach having one of the best FALL
BOARDS around.
Garret

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Jory A. Olson
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 2:11 PM
To: 'pianotech@ptg.org'
Subject: Slow Fall Fallboards


If this has been covered recently please send me the URL for the search
engine and I'll dig it up on my own.  I seem to have misplaced that
particular URL.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anybody has ever thought about or attempted to
install the "slow-fall" mechanism from a Boston, Kawai, or Yamaha in another
brand of piano.  I managed to drop the fall board (maybe that's how it got
its name :)) on my Petrof III again last night while fooling around with the
music desk.  The bang is pretty loud, (I had to scrap the dog off the
ceiling) and I imagine it could really hurt if your fingers got caught.

I know my Ford Contour has small dashpots on the glove box and ashtray doors
so they open ever so slowly.  Seems like it might not be too hard to add to
another brand of piano, although I haven't examined a Boston closely enough
to see how the mechanism works.

Anybody tried this?  How were the results?

Jory