RACHALS

[Avery Todd]

Rogerio,

It sounds like the hammers might be too low or the jacks are set wrong 
under the knuckles.
Are the hammer tails rubbing on the way up? Just a couple of thoughts.

Avery

At 04:23 PM 03/26/03 -0300, you wrote:
>To the list
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>Today I went to solve a problem on a RACHALS grand.
>The piano was very well restored in England and now is on Rio de Janeiro.
>All on it was very nice and the only wrong thing was the hammer shanks 
>that  was resting on the hammer rest rail. I lowered the rail.
>There are on it a problem that I could not to solve. If you play normaly 
>it is a very good piano and a very nice one but in some notes if you need 
>to use a heavy blow, the hammer don't go to the strings. The hammer stays 
>blocked on the backcheck. I separate the back check from the tail of the 
>hammer and this don't solved the problem.
>I made a accurate inspection in 3 or 4 notes with this problem, and I 
>could not to discover what is wrong.
>I need help.
>Thanks
>ROGERIO CUNHA
>IC Member of The Piano Technicians Guild
>Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
>http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/dacapo/
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