Well, if you can't do what Ron N. suggests then here are a few little tricks. You can bend the backcheck wires two ways. Hold the wippen down with a screwdriver blade and push the backcheck with your finger which goes between the lifters. If the wire is too stiff or too springy you can use a damper wire bender and bend the wire down near the bottom of the wire. Bend them all in a straight line but if the hammers check at different points then the sharps may need more or less dip. Some variation is inevitable but try to keep it at a minimum. As for dampers, the spoons are more easily accessed in a spinet than other pianos, for the most part. The damper wires as as easy, or hard, to get to as on any other vertical piano. There are two issues here. Removing the action is a pain in the backside and doing the work is a pain in the back. Otherwise everything is the same as on a taller piano. Newton
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