[CAUT] Yamaha Story & Clark Grand

[David Ilvedson]

If you checked all the usual places, I'd say they are under the legs.   Do the legs look normal, coming all the way to the front of the piano is odd...I do remember having to switch legs once that were reversed and covering the screws...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jeff Tanner" <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 9/19/2009 8:39:12 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Yamaha Story & Clark Grand


>Hi All,
>This may be more appropriate fodder for pianotech, but I tuned a 1969 Story & 
>Clark model 158 grand made by Yamaha the other day, and I wanted to pull the 
>action to make some adjustments to the sostenuto rod and damper upstop rail, but 
>could not for the life of me find the screws that hold the keyblocks down. The rubber 
>buttons did not look large enough to conceal screws beneath and, not having any 
>rubber buttons with me for replacement (much less, brown ones), I didn't want to 
>take a chance of tearing them all to pieces to find out. They are, after all 40 years 
>old. The top part of the legs come almost to the front edge of the keybed, covering 
>up the area where Yamaha keyblock screws would normally be. Certainly one does 
>not have to remove the legs to pull the action? Or is there a secret somewhere I 
>couldn't locate? Anybody out there familiar with this piano?

>Thanks in advance,
>Jeff Tanner