Puzzler #172

[Ron Nossaman]

> List,
>A couple weeks ago I needed to get an action out of a grand. The piano was
>up on its side with a grand piano on either side of it (I could not move the
>piano out from in between), maybe 3" clearance, just enough room to get my
>hand and an inspection mirror between to ascertain that all the hammers were
>resting against the strings. I could kind of poke a thin blade in and move a
>hammer down to rest position only to watch it (via mirror) rise again to
>come to rest against the strings. How did I get the action out, with no
>broken hammer shanks?
>Ken Jankura RPT
>Newburg, PA


Poster board, slid (slud?) in under the pinblock and over the hammers.

Or 16 people with air hoses.


Ron N