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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">These are made by QRS. You can detach the cord from beneath the piano. There is a small sleeve, much like on an upright damper block, with a setscrew you can loosen. THe setscrew holds the end of the cord. The cord/wire is then pulled out of the small bellows arm. You can then remove the fallboard. To install, just reverse the procedure. It's a little tricky to thread the cord down between the keys and through that hole. Thread the cord thru the bellows arm and secure with the setscrew and sleeve. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">I've installed a bunch of these. I had a lot of callbacks where the screw eye came out of the fallboard and it stopped working. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">Paul McCloud</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">San Diego</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=hardmanwesley84@gmail.com href="mailto:hardmanwesley84@gmail.com">Wesley Hardman</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> 07/18/2011 8:49:59 PM </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [pianotech] Soft-fall mechanism</DIV>
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<DIV>Serviced a two year old Boston grand today and needed to pull the action to find out why b5 and c6 keys were binding. In the attempt to remove the fallboard, I found what looked like a plastic coated wire attached to the rear of the fallboard. The attached wire ran down between two keys, through a hole in the keybed, and hooked onto a mechanism underneath the piano that operated in such fashion as to produce a slow fall of the fallboard.</DIV>
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<DIV>Has anyone on this list had any experience with this type of mechanism? If so, who might be a distributor? Better yet, who might be the manufacturer. I need to know how to go about detaching the wire in order to pull the action without damaging the mechanism.</DIV>
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<DIV>Wesley Hardman, RPT</DIV>
<DIV>Scottsboro, Alabama</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>