Kimball Mystery - Solved!!

[Ron Nossaman]

>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"




At last! Thank you, Bob. I've wondered about those little screws for a long
time. Now that that's cleared up, I'll have more free time for worrying
about some of the other seemingly random things I run across inside pianos.
Hmmm... maybe this wasn't such a good deal after all.
 Ron