<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4613.1700" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Which reminds me that I condemned an upright the other day.  I have only done this a few times out here in California.  The owner complained of a few sticking dampers...when I opened the piano I found that the entire plate/back had tipped forward towards the player about an inch.  Looking at it from the back you couldn't see anything abnormal!  The sticking dampers were the least of her problems.  This was a Kimball with a Mission style case.  I suggested the owner hang the music rack on the wall.  She was considering using the music rack and kick board for shutters but they are of different sizes.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David I.</DIV> <DIV>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/1/01 at 8:32 AM Jon Page wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">I had someone rent a studio upright which I had for sale. They wanted to save money and move it themselves. Same thing  :-)   They said they were awful sorry and was there anything they could do.  I said, "Yeah, You can buy it".  "That thing's not worth $800, they said.   I said,  "Yeah, Not now..." Cut plugs from the keys for releading and capstan relocation. Remove the letoff rail and remove all the letoff screws, drill out the holes a little larger; now you have a great grand damper holder. The balance rail is good to affix to the wall for a tool rack.  The keybed is a good work surface for grand action work on top of a piano (padded piano) .  The lid is a shelf, so could be the lower panel but it is a good work surface to hold a set of keys.  The music rest rail is good for holding hammers, wippens. All sorts of good items in there. Jon Page At 12:45 PM 05/01/2001 +0200, you wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">Hi, I went to see a "customer" today, the call was that the piano got damaged in a move. Well, I got there and in his garage was the (vertical) piano, in the back of his truck - IN PIECES. He has secured it with nylon rope, he came around a corner and the "ropes" gave way and it fell out of the back of the truck (pick-up type) slowed down by the rope it landed on its top. The sides and pedal board came away as one U shaped piece and other bits fell off at same time of impact. Unfortuanately the plate is cracked otherwise I might have given him a serious quote, I was really trying to refrain from busrting out in laughter as he told me the story. So, as it is already "packed" in his truck he will bring it around tomorrow and I guess I'll have a few more spare action parts. I think I'll attempt making one of those computer cabinets with it, as shown in last May's Journal. Ho humm....... :) Brian Lawson, RPT</BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>