At 7:44 AM -0500 7/30/04, Michael Spalding wrote: >Anyone seen this before? Can I just re-glue the felt onto the tab, >or should I plan to replace parts (might be interesting trying to >find sostenuto parts for a 1930 Steck). Fixed tabs or hinged wooden tabs? Mox nix. Regluing the felt (or even making and installing new fixed tabs) is simple compared to the briar patch you'll head into assuming that the replacement posts (if available separately from the entire back action package) are close enough to the original Stecks to swap without creating (at a minimum) at lot of wire bending. DAMHIK >Also, very short engagement of underlevers on key ends, and >therefore some severe wear of key-end felt. Can't move the action >in, can I shim the back action out? Again, shimming the back action out will create alot of wire bending. Remember that the scale stick (hammer strike line and the damper line) widens as you move it forward towards the action. You'll gain two things by replacing the key-end end felt: 1.) the realization that it's one of the simplest job we can do in an action rebuild, and 2.) doing it this way saves you from one of the most complex areas of piano rebuilding, proper damper regulation. Like Ben Stiller says in "Starsky and Hutch", "Juh dough eh" :-)
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