I do the same thing as a matter of routine - lift a tad, tug a little this way and that to be sure there is a connection there. I did this a week ago at a church with a small old microgrand. Lift a little tug a tad this ------------- whooooaaaa!!!!!! I just about fell backwards as the lid came with me! The forward hinge has a nail as a hinge pin, but the round hinge parts of the hinge actually had broken! While taking the lid off for hinge replacement, I noted that the rear hinge was pinned with a slender piece of steel wire. Yikes! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 7:09 AM Subject: Re: grand hinge pins > Dave, > > I might have missed this, too, since the lid was already up. If the > grand piano lid is down when I arrive, I always put it up to tune, just > to be able to mute the strings a little easier. In the process I > routinely tug it this way and that a little when it is up only a couple > inches, just to make sure the hinge pins are there. But as I said, in > your case with the lid already up, I could have been fooled, too. > > Regards, > Clyde > > Dave Nereson wrote: > > > Never assume the hinge pins on a grand lid are in place. We do it > > all the time, and usually we're OK, but I almost lost a finger today. > > The lid was up when I got to the customer's home, but I noticed it > > wobbled a bit when I removed the action to remove pencils, etc. So I > > decided to tighten the hinge screws. Lifted the lid up higher to get > > at the vertical screws that go into the rim when whisshht, whoosh, > > BAM! the thing came down on my hand -- hard ! I was afraid I had a > > broken finger or two, and one was bleeding. I gingerly tried moving > > them and they were OK, but I know I'll be bruised for a week or > > so. Well, the rear hinge was missing its pin. How the lid stayed > > in the up position for the whole hour and a half I did a pitch raise > > and tuning, and removed and shoved the action back in twice, not to > > mention the weeks or months or year (?) it had been that way with > > little kids practicing on it, I don't know. > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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