[pianotech] were they idots?

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Barbara,

I guess this is when I am glad I am a man and where a belt buckle.

I hook the acrosonic fall board on my belt buckle and hold the two sides brackets in my hands and ease up to the front of the piano while feeding the metal parts threw into place.  It works for me.

William



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Richmond 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] were they idots?


  Hmm, I worked on an Acrosonic spinet this week and just removed the fallboard from the rod that it's attached to (removing the little j-shaped pieces).  Then I let the rod sit on the sticker rail while I'm working.  The trick to reattaching it--because I don't have three hands--is to put my arm around the fallboard (so the front edge is standing up towards my armpit) and hold the rod with the same hand (left) while the right hand inserts the screws.  I guess that's not how it's supposed to be done, but I've been doing it that way for about 30 years now and it's pretty easy (for me)....maybe it works because I'm short.  :-)   

  Barbara Richmond, RPT
  near Peoria, Illinois


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  From: "Mark Purney" <mark.purney at mesapiano.com>
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 12:59:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] were they idots?


  I was just ranting about the same thing last week when I had to pull everything apart on an Acrosonic. When reassembling, you have to hold the fallboard up, hold the metal parts in place to line them up with the screw holes, and then try to carefully get that first screw threaded in without the other side falling down. The slotted screws don't help. When you're already using three hands to hold everything in place, and you only have one hand left to get the screw installed, it makes for extra fun when the screwdriver keeps slipping off the screw.


  On 8/8/2012 8:51 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:

    This has probably been discussed to death, but I wonder what went through the engineers' heads when they developed the Baldwin Acrosonic fallboard mechanisms. I know I'm not the only one who has cursed these fricken things. How could anyone with half a brain have thought up the totatlly insane method for attaching a fall board to a piano. I don't think these guys had a clue what was involved in how to put them back on the piano. They must have either been complete idiots, or had a sadistic streak for piano tuners. Maybe one of them had a brother-in-law who was a tuner with whom he didn't get along, or something.  

    I guess by now you have figured out that I am not a happy camper. I just spent 30 minutes putting one of those babies back on a piano. I thought I knew how to do this, but even after 35 years, they are still a mystery to me.  Other than the fallboard, they are nice pianos.  But maybe I should just say no to Acrosonics.

    Wim


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