S&S D with high strings/low action stack

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

The jack knuckle angle has the pivot of the jack too far forward 
(towards the pianist) so shimming the whippens out makes sense, until 
I actually have to do it, that is... :-(

At 01:02 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Dave, Andrew... whomover;
>
>Agreed on the relevancy bit :) It was good for a chuckle tho.  I 
>should know I've done worse ofte times enough.
>
>About the jack/knuckle alignment tho... he didnt give us which way 
>the angle was... but noting the drop screws are all the way up and 
>overstriking.... I'd certainly take a good look at whether or not 
>the stack is too low. If I had to hazard a guess I'd say he probably 
>sees the jack angled inwards and the shanks fairly high off their 
>cushions... assuming he went with 10 mm dip and reasonble amount of 
>aftertouch.  He didnt say but I suppose the let off screws are about 
>as high as they can get as well.
>
>Always hard to say tho with what we have so far.
>
>Cheers
>RicB
>----
>
>Missed that, I guess.  Not really relevant to my comments which still stand
>as far as what to check.  Poor jack/knuckle alignment suggests the spread is
>off.
>
>I suppose a four year history on the piano will be very telling...you go RB!
>
>David Love
>davidlovepianos at comcast.net
>www.davidlovepianos.com