Hello Clyde, The fix for these is simple, thats if you don't want to or can't easily get the replacement part. Remove broken remains, then drill a hole in top of dowel, fit a 4" nail and trim (shorten excess) down to size. Then drill and bush a hole in the lift rod arm (or what-ever-it's-called). This is permanent and works a treat. I used to work for a Weinbach dealer and we did this to all incoming models. The 124 is a nice sounding piano for the money. Regards, Graeme Harvey New Plymouth New Zealand >Yesterday I went to fix the sustain pedal action and tune a 49" Weinbach >vertical piano model 124 serial 259872, made about 1995. >I had never heard of Weinbach. In any case, the support for the sustain >dowel was different from the two methods I am familiar with. The bottom >of the dowel had a pin in it, pretty standard. But to hold the top in >position under the liftrod tongue, a small piece made of spring steel >and a little less than 4" long was attached to the keybed at one end and >the dowel at the other. This piece had broken at a screw hole in the >keybed end. >The fix is easy. Get a new spring and screw it in. It's finding the >spring that may be time consuming and therefore expensive. Three >questions: What is the official name of this part? What is the most >efficient way to obtain this part? Thirdly, the client says this is the >third time this part has broken, and the piano is only six years old. >Has anyone else run into this problem, and has any kind of alteration >been successfully attempted? >Thanks, >Clyde Hollinger
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