---------- > 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
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