<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hmm, I worked on an Acrosonic spinet this week and just removed the fallboard from the rod that it's attached to (removing the little j-shaped pieces). Then I let the rod sit on the sticker rail while I'm working. The trick to reattaching it--because I don't have three hands--is to put my arm around the fallboard (so the front edge is standing up towards my armpit) and hold the rod with the same hand (left) while the right hand inserts the screws. I guess that's not how it's supposed to be done, but I've been doing it that way for about 30 years now and it's pretty easy (for me)....maybe it works because I'm short. :-) <br><br>Barbara Richmond, RPT<br>near Peoria, Illinois<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Mark Purney" <mark.purney@mesapiano.com><br><b>To: </b>pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 9, 2012 12:59:42 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [pianotech] were they idots?<br><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I was just ranting about the same thing
last week when I had to pull everything apart on an Acrosonic.
When reassembling, you have to hold the fallboard up, hold the
metal parts in place to line them up with the screw holes, and
then try to carefully get that first screw threaded in without the
other side falling down. The slotted screws don't help. When
you're already using three hands to hold everything in place, and
you only have one hand left to get the screw installed, it makes
for extra fun when the screwdriver keeps slipping off the screw.<br>
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On 8/8/2012 8:51 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com" target="_blank">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Helvetica, sans-serif">This has probably been discussed to
death, but I wonder what went through the engineers' heads
when they developed the Baldwin Acrosonic fallboard
mechanisms. I know I'm not the only one who has cursed these
fricken things. </font>How could anyone with half a brain
have thought up the totatlly insane method for attaching a
fall board to a piano. I don't think these guys had a clue
what was involved in how to put them back on the piano. They
must have either been complete idiots, or had a sadistic
streak for piano tuners. Maybe one of them had
a brother-in-law who was a tuner with whom he didn't get
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<div>I guess by now you have figured out that I am not a happy
camper. I just spent 30 minutes putting one of those babies
back on a piano. I thought I knew how to do this, but even
after 35 years, they are still a mystery to me. Other than
the fallboard, they are nice pianos. But maybe I should just
say no to Acrosonics.</div>
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