Steinway Style 2 (Modified by Kent Swafford)

[Richard Brekne]

Bill Ballard wrote:

> At 2:44 PM -0600 2/28/04, Kent Swafford wrote:
> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> I once had to extract the action from a Stwy B with a sagged block. As 
> with your piano, the drop screws wanted to dig ditches in the block on 
> their way out. What I did was to make a "crowbar out of my tuning hammer 
> and screwdriver brace bit, and pry upwards between the hammer rail and 
> the underside of the block. Obviously the downward pressure of this 
> crowbar on the action farme produced its own intense friction between 
> the keyframe and bed, but it least this was and obstacle i could 
> overcome, not like having 30+ drops screws claw their way across the 
> underside of the block.

Hmmm... well if its just a matter of the drop screws marking up the 
underside... I say mark it... I mean big deal.  I would be more worried 
about busting up a bunch of hammershankflanges.

Seems to me tho, given the suggestion that the pinblock had rotated down 
in the front to what looks like about a 15 degree pitch.... that one 
would be less inclined to service the action at all until a new block 
was fitted. Or what ??

Cheers
RicB