[CAUT] key sticks

[Ed Sutton]

Kent-

You're the one with the piano, so you're the only one who can watch for
everything!
Am I seeing more front rail than usual sticking out from the front of the
keys, or is it just the perspective angle in the photo?
How big is the gap between the keyfronts and the keyslip?
How does the plate sit in the case?
Is it possible someone was trying to get the strike point as far back into
the piano as possible?
Have the keys been repaired at the balance rail pin holes?

Ed Sutton


> [Original Message]
> From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net>
> To: Submit technical files to ptg.org <files@ptg.org>
> Date: 5/28/2005 9:17:00 PM
> Subject: [CAUT] key sticks
>
> I'm sending along 2 pictures of the F1 keystick, B 342631. Note the 7  
> original key leads, and the non-original leather key bushings. But  
> why I'm writing is the interesting location of the wear in the key  
> bushing from contact with the front rail pin. The whole set of keys  
> is similar, and under certain circumstances the front rail pins do  
> indeed bind on the front of the mortise. (This explains a few things!)
>
> Any ideas out there with regard to what happened? It looks like the  
> mortise is in the wrong place by just over 1/16". Anything else to  
> watch out for? I know, I know -- watch for  _everything_. But it  
> probably is just the mortise in the wrong place, right?
>
>
> Kent
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> Photos at:
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> http://tinyurl.com/cyygq
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> http://tinyurl.com/ao697
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> Direct ptg.org URLs:
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> https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/01/b9/bc/70/DSCN1071.jpg
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> https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/fa/4b/57/a0/DSCN1075.jpg
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