keyslip adjustment (Kawai)

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Patrick,
Order the part first. Charge for the part, then do the stomp at your
leisure.
You now have a part for the next time ( if ever and enough storage to keep
the parts <G> ) you come across this same model and color.
The plus to doing it this way is that your last name will not be Mudd and
your face will not be beet red.
Not an angel so there I will not tread.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Patrick Draine" <draine@comcast.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 11:59 AM
Subject: keyslip adjustment (Kawai)


> Friends,
> This morning I had to dash off to "fix some stuck keys" on a local
> piano teachers' Kawai GE-1 grand. I expected that it was the absolute
> neglect of action regulation on her part (which when I remind her of
> the need to do some work, she says "I'm not going to put any money into
> this piano; I'm going to sell it and get a really good piano" -- she's
> been saying this for more than 10 years).
> Turns out it was just the keyslip binding on some keys. Now, the
> dramatic fix that is usually demonstrated in Kawai classes has been
> taking the keyslip out, putting on end on the floor, the other on a
> bench, and putting one's foot and a good part of one's weight on the
> midpoint (inside surface of course), bending it from concave to
> straight. I remember Jim Harvey doing this with a big smile on his
> face. Somehow it's difficult to pull this off in front of the customer.
> Especially when you know that if something nasty happened (CRACK!) to a
> Kawai tech like Jim or Don Mannino, they would look so much more self
> assured than I, as they intoned ("Hmm, this part doesn't seem to be up
> to standard specs -- I'll have another Fedexed out tomorrow ..."),
> rather that (me: "OMIGAWD!").
> So -- are you all wildly successful with the Controlled Stomp
> Technique? My attempts at the whimpy version (one end on the rug, and
> pushing hard with one hand) seems rather futile.
> This time around I shimmed behind the "shims" (I can't find a proper
> name for 'em in Mason's <Piano Parts> -- quick Tom D, what's the name?)
> that are attached to the back of the keyslip and are clamped down by
> the cheekblocks. I don't recall this ever being suggested as a "proper
> repair."
> With proper clearance achieved, I could  head home & try to enjoy my
> Saturday ....
> So: what is the Correct Fix?
>
> Patrick Draine
>
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