Brentwood piano has low low keys

[Fenton Murray]

Julia,
I don't know what a brentwood is, spinet, I think. If the balance pins are showing 1/4" above the bushing, you can raise them with more felt or punching, if you have room under the fall. Look also at the key slip, will you be able to see under the key when you raise them up? Case parts will tell you a lot about where to set key ht. Shimming the rail makes since too, but the exposed pin makes me think the key should be higher through shimming. Might just have to make an executive decision and go for it.
Fenton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KeyKat88 at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:20 PM
  Subject: Brentwood piano has low low keys


  Greetings,

              Servicing a Brentwood (serial 72722) ( year?) piano (which desparately needed a pitch raise and had some loose tuning pins), I discovered that the keys are terribly low. There were about 1/8" worth of punchings under the balance rail(!), and the keys are so low that the jacks dont even come in contact with the let off buttons on a keystroke. It's capstans are turned almost all the way up and the balance rail pins stick up about 1/4" out of the key shoe! I could hardly believe that this got out of the factory, let alone the dealer.
    I suspect this animal may be a "wet piano". Are these pianos notoroius for this?  What to do? I think the answer is to shim up the entire balance rail...what say anyone? I there anything else I should check first?

  Julia Gottshall
  Reading, PA 





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