new meaning for weighing keys

[llafargue]

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I had a customer with a nice C7 and he had a damper that wouldn't work,
so after 3 techs looked at it, they left 3 large metal clips attached to
the damper head to make it dampen.  The touchweight on that key was
tremendous.  It turned out the wire was bent front to back and rubbing
on the belly of the piano under the edge of the soundboard when the key
was depressed, causing the problem.  When I pulled the wire forward and
pulled the clips off in 5 seconds, the owner was a little amazed to have
it work great.    
 
Lance Lafargue, RPT
LAFARGUE PIANOS
New Orleans Chapter, PTG
985.72P.IANO
llafargue@charter.net
 
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From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Wimblees@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:38 AM
To: caut@ptg.org
Subject: new meaning for weighing keys
 
Last night I tuned a Wurlitzer spinet. The right pedal wasn't working,
so I took off the bottom board, and attached the rod. But I discovered
something interesting. Hanging by a piece of thread from one of the
stickers was a hugh washer, about 1 1/2" in diameter. Naturally I took
it off, and I found out that the reason the weight was on the sticker
was to make the key work. Without the washer, the key stuck. So I lifted
the key, and saw that the problem was that the front bushing was folded
over, creating lots of friction on the key. It took only a couple of
seconds to correct the problem. 
 
I don't know if the washer was attached by a very incompetent piano
tuner, or by some ingenious customer. Lets hope it was the latter, but
knowing some of the technicians in this part of the country, it was
probably the former. 
 
Wim 
Willem Blees, RPT
Piano tuner/technician
School of Music
University of Alabama

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