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Offline lufia

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Things falling into the piano
on: February 11, 2006, 11:25:10 AM
I have had countless pens and pencials and sheetmusic fall inside the piano lol. When i close the lid i forget to take my pen and stuff away from it and it then it slips right through the gap. It makes a little sound when i press the keys down because it is lying on top of the lever (hard to explain). anywayz how do i get them out ?  :-X
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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #1 on: February 11, 2006, 01:34:25 PM
I have had countless pens and pencials and sheetmusic fall inside the piano lol. When i close the lid i forget to take my pen and stuff away from it and it then it slips right through the gap. It makes a little sound when i press the keys down because it is lying on top of the lever (hard to explain). anywayz how do i get them out ?  :-X
At least it's not candle wax... when i was looking for a piano, someone had let one out for a wedding and got hardened wax all the way through the workings... cost £6000 damage on a kawai grand...
Tom
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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #2 on: February 13, 2006, 12:57:51 AM
Just remove the fallboard.  On my Yamaha, I just put it in a position between open and closed and pull upwards.  When I put it back in I just have to make sure that I push in the direction of the soft close spring so it goes into it's notches. 

Note this may be slighly different on you're piano.

I remember in university one of my friends telling me how she put her flute on the music desk and it dropped into the piano.  She didn't know she could remove the fallboard - I wonder how she got it out. 
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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #3 on: February 14, 2006, 10:12:50 AM
Thanks that got some of the junk out but ther are some that are a impossibility ;) :P :D

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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #4 on: February 16, 2006, 04:46:44 PM
Thanks that got some of the junk out but ther are some that are a impossibility ;) :P :D



You have to remove the action, if you are not comfortable doing that yourself call your tuner/tech, and s/he will do it. Lol I once got a paper clip lodged in E2, it clicked and clacked and I couldn't get at it. It was driving me INSANE so I took the action out (had never done that with that piano, my tech does that he knows what he's doing and it's complicated, it's an old Steinway, not user friendly) removed the offending paper clip and then couldn't get the action back in properly, and taught several lessons that day without the fallboard, to the delight of my younger students (ooh look at that!  :D ) and perturbment of the older ones, who were distracted by the abscence of the fallboard, and made many mistakes they wouldn't have otherwise. That night I got everything back together properly.... :-[ :P :)
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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #5 on: February 16, 2006, 06:19:33 PM
imagine paperclips are difficult.  my youngest puts dimes in between (thinking bubble gum will come out, probably).  so, i just depress the key and try to get it out with my fingers or the vaccum.  suppose when it's really wedged - the tech is the only one to get it safely out.  i don't like scratching my own piano (which i enevitably do whenever i try anything 'dangerous' with it).

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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #6 on: February 16, 2006, 07:01:37 PM
you could try shaking the piano upside down...
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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #7 on: February 16, 2006, 07:28:36 PM
how strong do you think i am?  we're not talking body builders here.  just pianists.

reminds me of 'histories mysteries' last night - where this guy takes his girl to lovers lane.  she doesn't want to do anything in the car, so he tries to start it again - and oh, dear. it's out of gas.  so, they agree that he'll walk to the gas station and she'll stay locked int he car.  of course, if she'd been able to hear the radio - she'd have heard that a lunatic escaped the local nuthouse and was in their area.  well, later that night she hears this strange scratching on the roof of the car.  trying to ignore it, she goes back to sleep.  in the morning, the cops come, get her out, and try to keep her from looking back - but unfortunately, her boyfriend is hanging from a tree right above the car with his fingernails scratching the top of the car.

ok.  this was a bunk story parents told their children in the 50's (before the sexual revolution) because there was no way even a lunatic could hoist and string a grown man upside down from a tree limb (and usually tree limbs that close aren't strong enough anyway).  amazing this story was told over and over until the 60's when someone went looking for the truth about this particular story and lover's lane.  probably just a way to keep kids out of trouble.

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Re: Things falling into the piano
Reply #8 on: February 27, 2006, 09:07:00 AM
I have had countless pens and pencials and sheetmusic fall inside the piano lol. When i close the lid i forget to take my pen and stuff away from it and it then it slips right through the gap. It makes a little sound when i press the keys down because it is lying on top of the lever (hard to explain). anywayz how do i get them out ?  :-X

lol, clumsy fool... reminds me of me

anyway at my old music school someone dropped a paper clip in one of the grand pianos.  It was there for quite a while, I'm not sure they bothered to get it out, but I'm sure it would be possible, probably easy...
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