Porritt, David wrote: >> I've said many times that the >> lyre is meant for hanging and the keybed cannot or should not take the >> weight of supporting the piano even temporarily > > You mean, like sitting on the piano horse - on the key bed? > Ron N > > But the piano horse distributes that same weight across the whole key bed rather than a few square inches above the lyre. Quite so. I'm curious though. Have any of you found action problems you could attribute directly to setting a piano up on the lyre? Any actual evidence of key bed damage from this? I never have, but there are still an infinity of places I haven't been. So I was wondering if this is real, or yet another of those "intuitive" things. I know broken lyres and crushed corners on bottom plates are real, I'm just wondering where all this concern for the key bed comes from. Ron N
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