Fallboard Failure

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi B,
Fixed one in a resthome-hospital a few years back. It worked ok when the
stops were put back in the correct place and straightened. However the next
time I tuned the piano the entire fallboard was missing.  <G> O:(
Joe Goss
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> From: BSimon1234@AOL.COM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Fallboard Failure
> Date: Saturday, December 19, 1998 4:49 PM
> 
> List:
> 
> I recently had a brief look at a customer's piano that had the strangest
> fallboard mechanism that I have ever seen. 
> 
> It is a Kohler and Campbell spinet from the early 60's.  There is a 1/4"
metal
> rod the length of the fallboard, under it, on which is mounted three 1"
dowel
> sections. The doweled rod is slung on three heavy cords, the ends of
which are
> screwed down, and the fallboard travel is limited by yet another heavy
cord
> held by screws at the end. 
> 
> Somehow, the fallboard is supposed to roll on the  doweled rod, then stop
at
> full extension. It does not work at all, the rod is just slung under the
> fallboard and gets in the way.  Either the mechanism to hold the rod is
> partially missing, or I have not had the time to figure this one out. 
> 
> Can anyone help, and perhaps give me a clue as to what is supposed to
happen?
> Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> B. Simon
> Phoenix