words technical w/piano question

[Ron Nossaman]

>Well, actually I've not seen that effect so as you'd notice because of the
>padded block that is placed under the lyre to enable removal of the bass
>side leg and on which the box pivots.  I can see it happening if the block
>is bare wood, though.  I assume that even with the padded block, a kind of
>very slight rounding of the left bottom edge of the box might occur given
>enough moves and enough time.
>Greg G.

A pad sure helps. Unfortunately, the maintenance guys (Bobs?) aren't up to 
speed on such niceties. Other subtleties escape them too. There was a 
tremendous pair of matching dents between the lyre top plate (treble (up) 
side) and the underside of the key bed where one of them tried to remove 
the lyre, after taking out the screws, by driving a large screwdriver 
between the two. Judging from the extent of the damage, he gave it his full 
attention for some time. Pads? Nah - not these guys.

Ron N