Mark, At 22:53 02/27/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Hi List - What I >saw was 10-12 keys, not consecutive, but all in the bass, that were going >'every which way' but straight. They were not a little crooked, some >were not even able to ride on their own front pin and were pushing so >hard on their neighbors that even keys a couple notes down were >affected... kind of like a 10-car pile-up. Could the event which precipitated this trainwreck have been simply that somebody took out the keys (lost object/coin removal) and, not having numbered them first, put them back in the wrong place? At that point the carving began to "make it work", since they didn't realise that a D is different than a G or an A, etc.?? I assume you _did_ try to rescramble them correctly (if they weren't so mangled that you couldn't identify them as to species). Was this Ellington a player? Baldwin 2nd line...? Our Aussie friend is on the right track. If my simplistic idea of misreplaced keys is wrong (& how many simple answers are correct?), I feel your pain. The cost of any key duplication service, even if you do it yourself, is greater that the value of that 70+ yr old upright, and the owner should be made fully aware of that fact. Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician -mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu Luther College -(319)-387-1204 Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. ---Wm. Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice
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