This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment My guess would be a hammer flange is the "tiny platform" and the = "keystroking lever" is the shank. Weird! Phil Frankenberg Chico, California ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 4:11 PM Subject: Holiday weekend puzzler List,=20 In this news story from Associated Press, a mishap occurred with a = Steinway D=20 during a performance of Beethoven's Triple Piano Concerto. By the=20 description given, I can't at all imagine what went wrong. Anyone = else have=20 any ideas?=20 Bill Bremmer RPT=20 Madison, Wisconsin=20 Piano Breaks in Yo-Yo Ma Concert=20 .c The Associated Press=20 =20 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Luckily for Yo-Yo Ma, there was a doctor in the = house.=20 A concert featuring the cellist had an unexpected delay when a 9-foot=20 Steinway piano broke in the middle of Beethoven's Triple Concerto.=20 Although Ma waved his handkerchief inside the piano in an attempt to = rouse=20 the ailing instrument, it took a piano doctor waiting in the wings to = set=20 things straight.=20 As the repair expert hustled on stage Thursday to fix the concert = grand=20 piano, Ma and other musicians entertained the giggling crowd of 1,800 = at the=20 University of California, Los Angeles.=20 In less than 10 minutes, a tiny platform that holds the keystroking = levers=20 was fixed, and the show went on to the applause of the audience, some = of whom=20 had paid $500 for their seats.=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/96/63/3c/e0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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