Steve Borgstrom's question brings to mind a question I've been meaning to ask: I'm hesitant to remove player actions when I tune them. I generally tune them with the player mechanism in the piano, which needless to say, is a pain in the...back. I do it this way for two reasons, one fairly good reason, and one not-so-good reason: #1, I understand that the rubber hoses or tubes can be fragile and break easily. #2, I don't really know how to remove the player mechanism. I guess if this came up more often I would have dealt with it, but so far I've only had to tune maybe 3 or 4 of these monsters. I don't want to do any harm to the client's piano, so I just suffer through them. Without writing a treatise on the subject, is there anyone who could direct me in the correct way to remove of a player mechanism? (Perhaps there are too many different kinds to answer this question.) Tom S
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