Ron N, Oh, fellow fuzzy faced fallboard felt fancier. >You got it used? You hadn't needed to look at the action until now? I am in the two ring circus of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", and "let sleeping dogs lie". I was not in on the selection of the instrument, (though I did have to rig it for the crane to put it in the second floor window). I did go over the regulation on arrival, but it wasn't heavily used while it was in a voice studio. Once it got to a practice room, what was left of the bushings wore quickly, and I got to see "the rest of the story". > How would you know what the condition of the back rail cloth was when > the piano >came in? Obviously, I didn't. - see above. >Wouldn't it seem likely that the wippens and hammers/s/f were >replaced because the moths had eaten them at the same time they ate the >back rail cloth and whoever replaced the w/h/s/f, just didn't bother with >anything under the keys? Upon changing glasses and looking closer, I tend to agree with that assessment. Front rail punchings were replaced, but I have to replace back rail cloths and balance bearings as well as rebush the keys. > If you don't actually see little wigglers in that back rail cloth, it's > likely old damage. I'd guess the perpetrators are long gone and the rest > of the felt is as safe as it can be in a practice room. The underside of the back rail cloth looks like the underside of the doormat of a house on the shore. Those eggs look like a fetal sand dune. >Mothballs - which are camphor, used here for pianos and wardrobes, tied up >in little bags, made of stocking material. > >Brian Lawson, RPT Yes, I recognise the smell. I was hoping that there might be something else besides it and a cedar sachet. Conrad Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician -mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Voice-(319)-387-1204 // Fax (319)-387-1076(Dept.office) Thanksgiving: Today all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment: halftime.
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