<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>P { MARGIN: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2995" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piano Forte Supply</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fallboard Decelerators</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.pianofortesupply.com/decelerators.html">http://www.pianofortesupply.com/decelerators.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=tune4u@earthlink.net href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">Alan R. Barnard</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Murderous Fallboard</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <P>I have a music teacher customer with a Yamaha grand that has a poorly counter-balanced (or some problem) fallboard. It has made several credible attempts to chop hands off young students.</P> <P> </P> <P>It appears to have never had any sort of close-retarding mechanism, let alone a Soft-Close device.</P> <P> </P> <P>Tried Googling up a solution, 'cause I know it's been on the list, but I got endless chains of stuff and no answers (and no hits when I added "site:www.ptg.org" for some reason.)</P> <P> </P> <P>Someone help me out here, please. What's a good fix?</P> <P><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR></P> <P>Good Advice <EM>"Don't Believe Everything You Think"<BR></EM></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>