<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <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> <br> <br> On 8/8/2012 8:51 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:8CF43F95A604D55-16E4-56765@webmail-d170.sysops.aol.com" type="cite"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" face="Arial, 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 along, or something.  </div> <div> </div> <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> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> </font> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>