I have! I've seen drop screws broken off. Admittedly there wasn't much of a gap between the screws and the block in the first place but that's no excuse. Even if this weren't the case the rounded over edges of the lyre bottom is just plain negligent IMHO. Greg Newell Greg's Piano Forté www.gregspianoforte.com 216-226-3791 (office) 216-470-8634 (mobile) http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=NNaYfMKd -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 11:08 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Lyre Damage 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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