dangerous pianos

[Farrell]

BOUs?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Z! Reinhardt" <diskladame@provide.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: dangerous pianos


> 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.
> 
> 
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