This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi all, I was watching "Great Balls of Fire" last night, about Jerry Lee Lewis. = I noticed that in a few of the grands they had set up in the movie = (which I presume were set up the same way as they were in real life for = the guy), the fallboards had been removed. Of course with his hands = flying all over the keyboard, and especially when playing while = standing, it's easy to see how fingers colliding with a fallboard could = be problematic. I've had the fallboard removed from my piano for a long = time, and although it looks ugly that way, I have to admit it feels nice = to have the extra room, especially since I play pretty deeply into the = keys. Question 1: Do some of the more... er... *energetic* performers request = their pianos be set up sans fallboard? Question 2: Are pianos ever permanently set up with a fallboard that = can either flip back ~OR~ lift out? If so, what is the best way to do = that -- that doesn't risk scarring up the case with exposed pins, that = is? And lastly, a trivia question: Did Lewis *really* set a piano ablaze = (with alcohol dumped all over the soundboard) and perform "Great Balls = of Fire" on it?! <GASP!> Peace, Sarah ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/23/6b/20/c4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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