At 02:10 1/28/2007, you wrote: > > > >Do you tune pianos with lids that try to guillotine your fingers? > > >You mean fallboards? That's not the lid. > --d.n. So named because they fall on your fingers... Kimball, or any grand whose open fallboard is higher than the stretcher, will drop on your hand whenever your forearm even gets close as you reach to tune. One setscrew on each side will let you remove the danger. It will also allow the necessary pencilectomy. Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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