<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="padding-left: 3px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"><pre><tt>>But > maybe I should just say no to Acrosonics. > Wim Nah, just quit taking the flippin' fall boards out! Ron N</tt></pre></blockquote></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> Except when you have to repair a key. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 7:04 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] were they idots?<br> <br> <div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="AOLMsgPart_0_2f0a3d1e-e3fb-4f33-9649-e4be490fe9f9"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On 8/8/2012 10:51 PM, <a href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote: > This has probably been discussed to death, but I wonder what went > through the engineers' heads when they developed the Baldwin Acrosonic > fallboard mechanisms. Those are Eitherseers! You can either see the keys, or the hammers, but not both at the same time. They weren't idiots. Except for being so huge, I think it's a pretty clever mechanism, but they did have a definite mean streak. >But > maybe I should just say no to Acrosonics. > Wim Nah, just quit taking the flippin' fall boards out! Ron N </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font>