One OT subject and One "on topic"

[Alan Barnard]

Had one exactly as you describe. Turned out the movers had tilted this little console onto one side (end) and packed it in the truck thataway. 

The keys had lifted off the rail pins enough to get all wedged and jumbled together. All I had to do was remove a few to make some working room and reposition each key on the proper pins.

As I'm writing this I'm thinking 'why didn't the fallboard keep the keys in place?' I can't remember why they were able to lift that way, but they did.

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brian Doepke 
To: Pianotech List
Sent: 06/30/2006 9:20:42 PM 
Subject: One OT subject and One "on topic"


I had to laugh out loud when I read the last names of the first 2 tunings today. ( I just list the customers last names)  My first 2 clients last names today were ( I am not kidding)  Brake, Wind.
 
Ok, more seriously.  I received a call from a woman who said that 70% of the keys of her grandmothers recently moved upright piano were already down…in the position achieved after a normal key stroke…and would not work.
 
 she said “upright” …but that could be anything from a spinet to an old, tall upright.  Who knows!!
 
Anyway, I have dealt with jammed keys in a recently moved grand, but not in a vertical.
 
Does anyone have any ideas on what this might be?? (naturally I told her that I needed to actually see the piano and really could not even guess on what was causing the situation, or even how much it would cost to get them working again)
 
Brian P. Doepke 
AAA Piano Works, Inc.
Piano Tuning-Repair-Purchase Consults
260-432-2043
260-417-1298
 
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