---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Wednesday, January 5, 2005, at 03:11 PM, Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote: > Yes a minimum wage worker can get an upright un -strung in 1 & 1/2 > hours strings & pins removed & or just loosen the tension so it > doesn't explode when the post get removed. Speaking of, I saw a program on the Discovery Channel a few weeks back where they disassembled what appeared to be a NEW (high polish ebony) vertical piano in order to convert it into some kind of wet bar. I watched in horror as these improvement "EXPERTS" took the bolts out of the plate without letting down the tension. They weren't even wearing safety glasses. You can just imagine their conversations: "Hey, I think I see how it works! It looks like you just take the bolts out of this harp thing and it will lean over and lift right out. Hey, get me the electric screwdriver." Meanwhile the guy on the other side is chopping into the soundboard and backposts with an axe. Luckily, the plate still wouldn't come out. They finally decided to take wire cutters and go along under the tuning pins cutting them all loose in just a minute or so. I was glad to see them get that done before someone got hurt, but am still concerned that people around the country who saw the program might try to duplicate the project and not be as fortunate. I wrote the show, but haven't heard back from them. And why they didn't use an old upright with one of those beautiful cabinets which would have otherwise been bound for a junk yard is still baffling me. Jeff Jeff Tanner, RPT School Of Music University of South Carolina ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1694 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/4d/1a/fd/a5/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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