How do I open this piano???

[carl meyer]

Hey David, I tuned one of those awhile back.  Couldn't get the top off.
The lady called her mother who had given her the piano and she said that
at both ends of the rear of the piano two rubber butttons under which a
couple of screws were located, removing these screws allowed the lid to
be slid forward or backwards, I don't remember which, and eureka the lid
was off.  I know how you feel, I was embarassed too.

Carl Meyer 
Santa Clara, Ca.  

David Pritchard wrote:
> 
> I've come across an Acrosonic Spinett built in 1936.
> Serial #272287.  After 20 minutes, I finally gave up
> trying to figure out how to open it.  There are hinged
> pieces on top which fold over the music desk and keys
> so that when closed, the piano is like a big box.
> There are no hinges on the back and no screws under
> the keybed or anywhere else which would seem to let me
> take the lid off.  I tried sliding the lid forward or
> backward, but couldn't get it to budge.  It looks as
> though the front edge of the lid is attached to the
> vertical piece of wood behind the music desk (no gap
> at all), as if the whole music desk would need to come
> off with the top.  I'm wondering if there is some
> trick to this piano someone would know about.
> Otherwise, I wonder if the piano had ever been
> refinished and the parts got sealed together with a
> varnish or something.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> David Pritchard
> Scottsbluff NE
> 
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