Hi Pam! If a piano "accepts" a pitch raise and doesn't give you any grief during the fine tuning, then the chances of it being "dangerous" are incredibly low. If it is constantly going flat but the pinblock feels like it should be able to hold the pins properly, it most likely has a structural problem. Even with a cracked plate, broken beams or whatever, I have yet to hear of one spontaneously imploding without being dealt a severe blow, such as being dropped or catapulted. Go to any piano dealer's trade-in warehouse and there are bound to be plenty of BOUs that are clinically DOA, but they are not considered dangerous. There's one warehouse where the staff will deliberately implode the dead pianos by dropping them from a forklift into a loading bay. They have found that a piano will have to be dropped about 6 feet to do more than scuff up the finish. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Jenkins" <pjx2@runpoint.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:19 PM Subject: dangerous pianos Well, thank you for your responses concerning structural integrity and exploding pianos. I honestly did read an article many years ago when I was first beginning to tune about a school piano that a technician hurriedly removed because he felt it was a danger to life and limb. So I have spent all these years approaching BOU's (big old uprights) with caution mixed with fear...thank you for exorcising my demons. Pam Jenkins, Maine chapter. _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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