At 06:41 AM 8/17/2009, you wrote: >Susan, >What it sounds like you have is Pre-84 shanks and Hamburg >wippens. They don't work together very well. >Jeff Yes, probably that was it. Luckily I was not the one who did the rebuild ... and I got it to work in the end, by the repinning and various other tweaks. It's now a second piano in a teaching studio, instead of the main one. Susan >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:skline at peak.org>Susan Kline >To: <mailto:caut at ptg.org>caut at ptg.org >Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:43 PM >Subject: Re: [CAUT] CAF > >This was an ex-teflon piano with some geometry problems. I had to >tear some felt off the window cushions because some of the jacks >were pressing into them. I got the jacks free but the note jamming >problem was unchanged. > >In the end, I realized that the hammer tails were getting caught on >the way up by the backchecks after the fast initial note and before >the hard-played second one. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090817/e17a8081/attachment.htm>
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