Fun with lyres

[Jon Page]

I made a brace for the lyre. It involved a turnbuckle and was placed
diagonally between the top of the treble leg and the top of the lyre box.

It worked well for a long time and even impressed the movers on a 
9' Chickering. Unfortunately the metal to wood epoxy joint failed
and I never made another one. No, it wasn'r during a moving attempt;
I was lucky - I dropped it on a concrete floor. Like I said, lucky.

I would make another one without the wood. When I have the time
and ambition at the same time.

Jon Page

At 03:14 AM 7/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-07-05 01:45:43 EDT, you write:
>
>> As I rolled the piano up on it's leggs
>>  (sorry Deb) I learned what happens when a lyre snaps and breaks.
>
>>Lar
>
>The local movers just love to give me crap about rolling pianos up over the
>lyre. But hey, nobody else is around when its time to set the piano up after
>an install, so how else am I supposed to do it? I've used this method on
>pianos up to 6'3" and have never had any problem, but I suppose it is just a
>matter of time. I don't envy your experience, it must have been an extremely
>unpleasant event. I think I'll double check lyres in the future. Makes me
>think of the time that a mild mannered baptist minister tuner I know  was
>pitch raising a Meisner vertical one morning when the plate exploded. He
>quietly packed up his stuff, drove home, laundered his drawers, and went to
>bed for the rest of the day. And they say there is no drama in piano service.
>
>Have a good one
>
>Dave
>
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