<!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 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I would suggest that a fix might be to put a strip of felt in the groove on each side, until there is no sideways movement.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>To answer your question, no, I have not ran into this problem.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></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=edwcarw@yahoo.com href="mailto:edwcarw@yahoo.com">Ed Carwithen</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Piano Tech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 17, 2006 5:59 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> strange</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Ran into something unusual yesterday.  The piano is a 1970 Kawai grand.  The music rack  is about 1/4 inch shorter than the supports on the sides of the piano.  It will sit on the glides if it is positioned just so, but move it and one side or the other will fall.  There is no indication that the music rack has been tampered with or damaged, and the piano doesn't show any indication that its sides can have spread.  It just doesn't make any sense.  I might suspect that someone has traded this music rack for the original one but the owner assures me that that didn't happen.  Has anyone ever run into this situation before?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ed Carwithen</DIV> <DIV>John Day, OR</DIV> <P>__________________________________________________<BR>Do You Yahoo!?<BR>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <BR>http://mail.yahoo.com </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>