This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I saw one today that I had never seen in my 30 years in this= business. The lady called me to say that none of the keys= worked, and that the dampers were not damping. She hinted that= her boys had been "playing" with the piano. This is a= Chickering console. I went out this morning and found it exactly as she stated. It= took me about 10 minutes to find the problem. The main rail had= split. (It appears that it was a glued up rail and it suffered= glue failure.) The wippens were attached to a rail that was= fastened to the brackets. The hammers and dampers were on a= rail that was "floating" with nothing connected to any brackets.= I've brought the action home and I'm going to have to remove at= least all the dampers to get some clamps on the rail to put it= back together. It would probably be better to disassemble the= whole thing, but the piano doesn't really warrant a lot of= expense. It's always fun to see something new!! dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c1/7d/1e/ac/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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