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<DIV>Usually ,pushing the piano by the folder over lid in the direction of the
straight side of the piano ,or the same part of the lid whacking into a door
opening will can rip the screws out.</DIV>
<DIV>Tom D.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=tunerman@eastlink.ca
href="mailto:tunerman@eastlink.ca">Brian L. Johnston</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:40 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [pianotech] Mystery lid accident</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Yesterday I answered an emergency call to a Music Festival to look at their
C7 which "had a rattle and a couple of loose screws out of the lid". I checked
the hinge pins to be sure no one had removed them and started to lift the lid.
Turns out that all fifteen screws in the lid were laying on the soundboard and
had stripped out of the lid. This is one of my favorite pianos to service and I
could have cried. Fortunately, my tuner/tech wife was with me and we got
it off the piano, turned it over and proceeded to plug the holes with leather
and glue as a temporary fix as the piano section of the Festival needs it for
Monday. The lid will go back to the dealer for plugging of the stripped screw
holes and filling and buffing of the scratches when it is out of use in a couple
of weeks. This is going to be an expensive mishap. </P>
<P>Any theories on how this happened? No one in the church were this piano is
stored seems to know anything about it. (The piano is owned by the Festival, but
kept at the church.) If the lid fell off high stick would it have enough
momentum to jar all those screws loose? This is what I think occurred. If
somehow an idiot managed to lift it beyond 90 degrees, wouldn't the lid plummet
to the floor? I would appreciate any ideas as this has everyone baffled.</P>
<P>I have checked the piano for other damage that might result from a falling
lid, but the plate is fine and the tuning was pretty much where I left it two
weeks earlier. </P>
<P>By the way, I have lurked on this List for years and learned much from
it. I always enjoy reading the correspondence via the Archives each
morning before heading out to work.</P>
<P>Brian Johnston</P>
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