<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C3F3C1.8E7E1090">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> I’ve encountered an Apollo where the fallboard = hinged on brackets screwed to the panel behind the fallboard. I had to remove 4 = screws from the flange sticking up above the plate in front of the tuning pins. = Then remove the panel and fallboard together. Cheekblock screws were then = accessible. <o:p></o:p> <!= [if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Dean<o:p></o:p><= /font> <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></= p> Dean May             cell = 812.239.3359<o:p></o:p></= p> PianoRebuilders.com   = 812.235.5272<o:p></o:p></= p> Terre Haute IN  47802<o:p></o:p> <= span class=EmailStyle15><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> -----Original Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On = Behalf Of Tvak@aol.com Sent: Sunday, February = 15, 2004 9:35 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: = cheekblock/fallboard removal <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> List Nothing is more embarrassing than not being able to get the fallboard = and cheekblocks out of the piano when you want to work on an action = problem.  This happened to me yesterday with a Howard grand, circa 1920s.  = Fallboard did not lift out.  Cheekblocks had screws from the top, but would = not come out when the screws were removed.  There was no screw from the side (horizontally accessible below the key).   Removed a screw = from below, but no luck: it was there to hold the leg on.  I think that = perhaps there was another screw behind the fallboard but since I couldn't get = the fallboard out either, I'm not sure. Any ideas on how to open this Howard grand up? I have listed below the different configurations of cheekblock/fallboard designs that I am familiar with.  Could anyone add to this = list?  Perhaps the combined experience of the list will help some of us avoid = lost time and utter humiliation in front of our clients! This is what I've come across so far:      CHEEKBLOCKS           Screwed in from = below           Screwed in from above = (often under a rubber button)           Screwed in from the = side (access below key)           Attached to fallboard, screwed in from below      FALLBOARDS           Lifts out           Screwed in with tiny = screws accessible and viewable from the front           Screwed in on the = metal hinge thingee, accessible if pulled forward at a 45 degree angle and           =      unscrewed from the side           Attached to = cheekblocks: unscrew cheekblocks and remove fallboard and cheekblocks           =      together (ala Steinway) Unfortunately for me the Howard grand fits into none of these = categories. HELP! Tom Sivak Chicago Chapter PTG           <o:p></o:p><= /p> </div> </body> </html>