Mystery #3

[Jim]

Hi Dave:

Did she play with the shift pedal down and the back of the keys were
hanging up on the neighboring damper levers?

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 PDtek@aol.com wrote:

> 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
>