<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body> Had a lady who also played well into the keys, and needed to have me stain fallboard, in order  to hide the scratches.  She subquently lost  much of her sight, and asked me if the scratches were visibal again. I said that they were, but didn't expect that she would be concerned .  Not so.  Wanted me to bring it back as well as I could. Personal pride was very evident , and I felt good about doing it for her.  She also was meticulous about her dress, and house keeping .  Unfortunately, she had problems playing  without music, so her repertoire became limited.  I have a good friend in the music business who says that he has trouble playing "when" reading music. (  Ditto me !! )  I'm also a slow book reader.   ( Pictures are good !!!)  Youse think this is a sign of shtoopidity ??  Carl / Winnipeg Avery Todd wrote: <blockquote cite="mid6.2.0.14.2.20050126185928.0365bbe0@207.218.192.46" type="cite">At 12:57 PM 1/26/05, you wrote: <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">Hi all,   I was watching "Great Balls of Fire" last night, about Jerry Lee Lewis.  I noticed that in a few of the grands they had set up in the movie (which I presume were set up the same way as they were in real life for the guy), the fallboards had been removed.  Of course with his hands flying all over the keyboard, and especially when playing while standing, it's easy to see how fingers colliding with a fallboard could be problematic.  I've had the fallboard removed from my piano for a long time, and although it looks ugly that way, I have to admit it feels nice to have the extra room, especially since I play pretty deeply into the keys.</blockquote> Plus, you don't have all those "ugly: scratches that some pianists think "should" be there :-) NOT! Avery </blockquote> </body> </html>