slow returning hammers

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Greetings,

            I went to a home where there was a Chickering console piano that 
the hammers return at a snail's pace after the key is struck. I suggested that 
the hammer bushings around their center pins may be swelled due to humidity 
resulting in tightness and friction causing the slow motion return.  He had a 
heater bar in the piano and I suggested that he plug it in to dry up some 
moisture. He did. Two weeks later he calls and tells me it only helped allittle and 
the thing is still unplayable. 

             I am thinking that the only thing left to do is to bring the 
action home and put it near a radiator so they dry out, and give each pin a shot 
of protek. Any other suggestions? 

thanks,
Julia Gottchall,
Reading, PA 





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