Michael I was asked to look at an old Steinway in the back room of a nearby museum. It had what appeared to be leather tapes attached to the ends of the stickers and the back of the keys-no capstans. Some were broken. The rest looked very fragile. I was afraid to make any attempt at pulling the action. I have not found out yet how action removal should be done; and how is lost motion regulated? Any one else seen one of these? Paul Chick -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jorgensen <Michael.Jorgensen@cmich.edu> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 7:03 AM Subject: Re: Anybody Know About This? >> > >Though perhaps only my second or third tuning, I'll never forget this, > An old upright which I cannot remember the brand really did me in. I >tried to take the action out only to find that the stickers were screwed >directly to the keys (no capstans, just thin adjustable bolts connecting). >By the time I realized this, some keys had been lifted above their balance >pins and shifted enough that they wouldn't fall back into place. I was stuck >holding an action up and had to have help with from the customer. Somehow I >braced the action up and later with my fathers help managed to get the whole >thing back in. Nightmare it was, in a farmhouse twenty miles beyond the >edge of town. To this day, I always look. >-Mike Jorgensen >
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