KIMBALL (P.S.)

[Greg Torres]

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Roger,
 Maybe just increasing the tension on the hammer return springs would do
the trick? Or installing a new set of return springs with more tension?
I think it would be a better solution than new wires and straps or
replacing the instrument...just another thought.

Sincerely,
Greg Torres

ROGERIO OLIVEIRA DA CUNHA wrote:

>  Hello List. Today I went to solve a problem in a piano that it's
> owner said me that it was in trouble. I went there and could detect
> that few notes of the piano was good but a great number of them
> couldn't to function correctly. The owner of the piano told me that
> she lived four years on Texas and that bought the piano in Dallas.
> When I was inspecting the problem I was very surprised because there
> are no bridle  wires. I never saw a vertical piano without bridle
> straps! I inspected the wippens and saw that the holes to support the
> bridle wires was empty and clean. I haven't doubt that the never was a
> bride wire there. The model of the piano is one that the action is
> under the keyboard and the function of the wippens is correct; the
> function of the key is correct : if you press a key it pull the
> sticker, the sticker moves the wippens and when you release the key
> every parts come to the this place but the hammers this is the problem
> because they go to the strings and don't come back to the hammer rail.
> I think that the better thing to do is to install bridle wires and
> bridle satraps but I would like to read some technicians about this
> problem and I want know if is possible the KIMBALL to have made this
> piano without bridle straps.Rogerio Cunha - Rio de janeiro - IC Member
> of the PTG



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