Wilem: I used three pullies attatched to each side and back of the harp and as you described to beams. I pull one and then the other. I miscounted the number of bolts on this piano......there are 9...nine. I must suspend this harp from one source as you said because I will never level the harp to allow it to slip over the bolts. I like to have never got it out because of the torque from one pully to another. I hope you are right...it will just slip right over the bolts without too much trouble. WHEN YOU USE THE COME ALONG, DO YOU USE ONLY ONE SUPPORT STRAP TIED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HARP OR MULTIPLE STRAPS TIED LIKE A "TEE-PEE"? I have always used the three pully system but have always only had one nose bolt to contend with. This may be my very last piano to rebuild. It has been the piano from Hades...Pin Block ..two piece...bolts from bottom..24 bolts 12 of which were too rusty to remove easily...pin block shipped to Schaff for reproduction....first man ..hospital for pancreas....sent to #2 man....hospitalized for heart trouble....finally somebody made it.....it don't fit.... I think I'm going to have a heart attack. This week...I don't like "piano fixing". Tommy Black Decatur, Ala.
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