What it will do is cause the screws to stress their individual holes, resulting in little "bumps" in the wood, above each, and eventually tear out. Not nice. ( I refinished an 1891 "B" with this problem. ) Thump --- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > > > I recently tuned a concert grand for a > visiting well-known > > pianist. He insisted that when the grand lid > is opened and resting > > on the long stick, that the -front- lid be > closed. That is, the > > front lid was extended toward the player with > its bass edge resting > > on the bass end of the piano case. The rest > of the front lid was > > supported only by its hinges. > > > > > > > > Have any of you seen a grand lid > -intentionally- left open in this > > configuration? Does that stress the hinge > which connects the front > > lid with the main lid? > > If the hinges can't take this stress, the piano is > trash. It's > a non event, or an indication of a need to upgrade. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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