<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Willem Blees <<a href="mailto:wimblees@aol.com">wimblees@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: David Boyce <<a href="mailto:David@piano.plus.com" target="_blank">David@piano.plus.com</a>><br>To: Pianotech List <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> Sent: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 2:30 am<br>Subject: Steinway model Z weak bass<br><br></div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> The top lid is hinged from the left hand end, a thing I've seen before - I guess it was meant to impart the impression of opening a grand lid. But in what I feel is a design flaw, the hinge pin must be removed to take off the lid for tuning, and it has to be withdrawn from the back, which means pulling the piano out from the wall. <br> <br><br></div>Can't you insert the hinge pin from the front?<br><br><br>Wim  <br> <br> <br> <br></div> <div><font style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <hr style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> Supercharge your AIM. Get the <a title="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" href="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" target="_blank">AIM toolbar</a> for your browser.</font> </div> </blockquote></div> <div><br> </div> <div>Samick did this with theirs for a while an impossibly long hingepin about 10 to 12" that pulled out from the back. Every one of them that I encountered was "modified to be front removable!</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.<br>Charles M.Schulz<br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>