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<DIV></DIV>One word.... velcro<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from Kenneth Jankura <kenrpt@earthlink.net>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> Help! <BR>> I tune a Yamaha GB1 grand in a church. <BR>> I received a call a while back that the pianist is unhappy that the <BR>> fallboard is so loose it falls on her hands. <BR>> I stopped by to check it out, and this mechanism is a little <BR>> different from the G series grands. <BR>> It is spring metal that is circular and follows a leather covered <BR>> circular mortice in the side of the fallboard. <BR>> I tightened the spring tension by wedging the spring with a piece of <BR>> hammer felt under the bottom of the two screws, effectively making it <BR>> push against the leather harder. I could feel that it held better in <BR>> the up position. <BR>> No go. Another call, fallboard still keeps falling on the pianist's <BR>> hands. <BR>>
I went back and carved some hammer felt and glued it to the inside of <BR>> the case, in just the right spot so when the fallboard is raised, it <BR>> puts a lot of pressure when it is in the up position. I felt I had to <BR>> use quite a bit of force to place the fallboard in the up position. <BR>> Permanently fixed. <BR>> Of course, I just got the call that the pianist has once again <BR>> removed the fallboard because it keeps falling on her hands. What is <BR>> going on? The music director and I joked we might need a gate-type <BR>> latch to satisfy this situation. <BR>> What should I do? What has worked for you in the past? How do you <BR>> redesign a floppy fallboard??? <BR>> <BR>> P.S. I suggested a well placed tuning mute... <BR>> <BR>> Ken Jankura RPT <BR>> Newville, PA </BLOCKQUOTE>
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