Geez Louise, I've not had this kind of trouble since my first couple tries. Maybe I'm not correctly remembering the Acrosonic system, but I think I am. (Correct me if I'm wrong. And maybe there were a couple different ways Baldwin did this, dunno.)<div>
<br></div><div>What I do is set the fall board back in place as if it were extended all the way (as in over the key tops). That way it gets set in the right position. It's resting, so you don't have to hold it in place with you hands, belt, or belly. Then attach one side with the screws (the "adjustable" screw slot first, then the one with the one screw hole). Then do the other side the same way.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Never needed more than two hands for this.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div><div>John Formsma, RPT<br></div><div>Blue Mountain, MS</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Piano Boutique <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pianoboutique@comcast.net" target="_blank">pianoboutique@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Barbara,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">I guess this is when I am glad I am a man and where
a belt buckle.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">I hook the acrosonic fall board on my belt buckle
and hold the two sides brackets in my hands and ease up to the front of the
piano while feeding the metal parts threw into place. It works for
me.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">William</font></div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="piano57@comcast.net" href="mailto:piano57@comcast.net" target="_blank">Barbara
Richmond</a> </div>
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idots?</div>
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<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">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>
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<b>From: </b>"Mark Purney" <<a href="mailto:mark.purney@mesapiano.com" target="_blank">mark.purney@mesapiano.com</a>><br><b>To:
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<div>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 href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com" target="_blank">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote:<br></div>
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<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>
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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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<div>Wim</div>
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