I agree with Tom. The main action rail has a separation and the upper part moved heavenward. I've only seen this once also and fixed it after the previous technician was stymied. The client thought I was a genius (I'm not). Clyde "Thomas D. Seay, III" wrote: > Has the action rail separated, delaminated, or split? > > >All sorts of new experiences this week. Normally, I don't like puzzlers > >much, because I trouble shoot with a sort of elimination decision tree, > >rather than a list of possibilities to check, and I need to have all three > >hands on something to understand it. This one, however, I thought was > >unusual enough to show you. > > > >It's an older generic console (didn't even look at the name). As I was > >taking the front off, I plunked on a few keys to get some idea of what I > >was up against, when I noticed the treble half didn't play. "Oh yea", she > >said, "The kids have been having trouble up there." So why don't they tell > >you these things when they schedule the appointment? > > > >The bass half worked fine, but from mid treble up, there was progressively > >more and more lost motion until the hammers wouldn't move at all in the > >last octave and a half. Keys, keybed, or action specific? Running a finger > >across the top of the hammer moldings and again across the backchecks > >indicated that the flanges were intact and the screws were holding them in > >place on the rail. I lifted wippens by hand and got the same effect as with > >the keys. Ding! Diagnostics complete, in about half a minute. Having > >decided what I was looking for, I pulled the action and found what > >logically had to be the only possible reason for the symptoms, though this > >is the first time I've seen it... in a vertical. > > > >I'm off to the shop now to fix it. Name "it". > > > >Ron N > > Tom Seay > School of Music > The University of Texas at Austin > mailto:t.seay@mail.utexas.edu
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