---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List Two questions in one day! Sorry to take up the bandwidth. The suspect: a family heirloom Kimball upright from the 1890/1900s. The piano has a brass hammer/damper lever flange rail. I know that these can become brittle over time. This piano needs its dampers replaced, but I wonder how risky the removal of the damper levers (to scrape off the old felts) will be? There are no problems with the brass rail right now. I did have to replace one brass hammer butt plate which had cracked, but the brass rail is fine, so far. I just wonder about the stress of screwing in and out the damper lever flanges. Never having worked on one of these, I'd love to hear from someone who has had experience in this area. Now secondly, and more embarassingly: how the heck do you remove the damper levers on this beast? I'm hoping someone is familiar with this setup because it's hard to describe. I've seen two pianos like this in the last six months, so maybe someone out there knows about this. The screw for what I assume is the damper lever flange seems to be inside a little window in the lever, facing up, not out, so there is no way to get a screw driver in there to loosen the screw. It's right where an old Steinway damper lever would have it's little screw and plate, but instead, there's this hole in the wood, and inside are a couple of little metal rods, and there's the screw. You can see it in profile, because it's facing straight up, in the same direction as the length of the lever. I hope someone out there knows what I'm talking about! I honestly didn't spend a whole lot of time looking at it. Only long enough to think, here's something new. Or I should say, old. Really old. Then the owner asked me what condition the piano is in, and what needed replacing. Now, I'm faced with the possibility of having to figure out how to remove those damper levers. And, possibly replace the brass rail, too, if it comes down to that. Thanks in advance for any advice, Tom Sivak Chicago PTG Associate ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/74/4b/52/6e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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