Mystery #3

[Richard Moody]

She used more sustain pedal than you.    What part of the country is
this piano? Or in old grands sometimes the soft pedal lifts the
hammers instead of shifting the action.  This will accentuate tight h
f centers and key bushings.  Usually if these are tight the jacks are
tighter, and the action "skips" (as one client put it) before your
symptom is noticed.  

rm

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> From: PDtek@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Mystery #3
> Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 1:28 AM
> 
> List;
> This one may be too easy but I'll give it a shot anyway. When I was
first
> starting in this business I was servicing an old grand where the
owner was
> complaining of sluggish keys.When she sat down and played, I could
see that
> several keys were extremely slow coming back (her fingers were not
resting on
> the keys). When I sat down and played these same keys, they were
completely
> void of any friction whatsoever. I would play them slow, fast,
easy, hard,
> sustain on, sustain off, no friction. The keys were not touching
the slip and
> no keys were touching each other. She sat down, started playing
again and
> there were the sluggish keys again. It drove me nuts for about an
hour until
> I located and repaired the problem. What was it?
> 
> Dave Bunch