Kimball Mystery - Solved!!

[Robert W. Beck]

List!
The screws in the end panels of Kimball uprights are cosmetic "fixes"! The
holes were created by the mounting of the cabinets on transport dollies
(virtually hundreds in use) for shipment by company trailers to the main
piano plants at West Baden/French Lick, IN. The piano assembly plants were
aprox. 26 miles from the cabinet divisions in Jasper, IN. The oft discussed
"fix" is not noteworthy, but expedient!
I hope this clears up the "mystery". The pianos could not be shipped with
"open screw holes"! The company decided to fill the holes with screws as a
quick solution to redesigning the whole cabinet handling system that ran at
better than 250 a day!!

Bob Beck,
A former "insider"

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
JIMRPT@AOL.COM
Sent:	Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:31 AM
To:	pianotech@ptg.org
Subject:	Re:  Kimball mystery mounts - divergence


In a message dated 4/07/1999 11:42:05 PM, you wrote:

<<Aha! An irregulator hanger bracket index locator and lingering mystery
procedure. That would explain why the screws were left there holding nothing
(an irregular condition if ever there was one). I'm starting to detect a
trend here. Are you by any chance related to the late Reverend Dodson? (the
walrus said)
Ron >>

Yes as we are all related to Rev. Dodgson, as we must be by thought and
heart.
For who can forget having once loved?

"He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought"

And so far as we know Rev. Dodgson stands there yet, perhaps pondering the
meaning of two screws in a Kimball ?? :-)
Jim Bryant (FL)