Dang these puzzlers

[Michael Jorgensen]

Ed,
    Just one little hint--Please?  Can you make it happen while slowly lowering
the wippen without the key/capstain touching it?
-mj

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

> Greetings all,
>      I LOVE puzzles........no,  actually I hate them.  No,  I luv'em, but
> then, I hate'em too, when they suddenly hatch in front of me on my own
> workbench.  I mean,  I like to hear of other's puzzles, but I'm trying to
> make a living here, and time i$.  If this will save some others time, good.
>     OK,
> Steinway M # 295777
> New whippens, shanks, hammers, keybushing .  Kept the original action rails
> and their cloth, keypins  and accelerating half rounds.
>    As I finished the first key-level and rough regulation.(2  hours, I was
> not being real precise here),  I noticed that on soft release in the bass,  a
> couple of hammers were dropping slowly when they approached rest position.
> These notes felt ok, at this pre-B/W,S/W,Dn/U, stage of the game, and they
> regulated and repeated well.
>     It LOOKED like knuckles rubbing, or hammer felt touching neighbors, maybe
> even tight key bushings or a problem with the pins, but it wasn't.  It wasn't
> even a pinning problem .    I thought it must be a geometry problem,  maybe
> the knuckle was bigger, and pressed on the jack in a weird way as it fell
> back, etc......  no,  it was not that either.
>    The puzz-notes were in the bass, and they were A 13 and B 21.  The fix
> required some disassembly first.
> ?Ed
> (gee, now that I look at it,  this seems a lot easier than it did when I
> started taking the action apart.