Puzzler #172

[Michael McCoy, RPT]

1)- Sat in a chair with 3 bottles of home made wine staring at the piano
2)- Get up to relieve yourself in the grass outside the barn
3)- When coming back in, pinched something in your zipper, screamed and
stumbled, falling into the piano on the left which started the domino
effect.
4)- Piano in the middle now at an appropriate angle to allow hammers to come
to rest.
5)- Finish 3rd bottle with an icepack in your lap
6)- Have wife remove action.

Piece of cake, done it many times....


Mike McCoy RPT
So Central Pa Chapter 170 & SEPA 190 PTG
Langhorne, Pa
Mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Jankura" <kenrpt@cvn.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: Puzzler #172


> 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
>
>