<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I usually pull the hinge pin and set the lid aside.<div><br></div><div>Andrew Anderson</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:43 AM, PAUL CLEMENT wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi all<br><br>This is my first post to the list...<br><br>I have a question about techniques for propping open the lid of a piano with a side hinged lid. I tuned a Yamaha M1A the other day and couldn't figure out a good way to get the lid open high enough so that I could get my tuning hammer on the pins vertically. I tried flipping the lid all the way open but it hit the ceiling. And short of unscrewing the hinge from the lid of case I couldn't come up with anything.<br><br>Any suggestions?<br><br>Thanks,<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; "></span></font><span style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Paul Clement</span><br></span>Certified Piano Technician<br><a href="mailto:GTAtuner@yahoo.ca">GTAtuner@yahoo.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>| 416.903.1871<br><font size="1">Piano Technician's Guild Associate Member</font></font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "></span><br></span></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>