That'll teach me to skim an email. I read it the other way around - dampers engaged = sluggish keys. This was not what you wrote, Matthew, my apologies. I'd tend to agree with Dean here, too. William R. Monroe Matthew, > I think Dean May has identified the problem. > > If using the pedal to disengage the dampers from the equation causes the > keys to come back up, that is characteristic of a damper spoon hanging up in > the damper lever felt. Sometimes the damper spoon gets dirty or corroded, > or poorly adjusted, and digs a divot in the felt on the damper lever, then > hangs up in it. > > Engaged dampers would help to overcome most other causes of sluggishness in > the action. > > The problem may be apparent with only the three keys now, but other notes > may be worn and ready to cause problems in the near future. Be sure to > check them all. You will have to pull the action to get a good look at > everything. > > Good luck! > Claude Harding > > ------------------------------ > > > I had a client call me today with several sticking keys. I understand > that diagnosing a sticking key problem over e-mail is next to impossible, > but my client gave me some info that I thought possibly some of you, with > experiences, might give me a few ideas as to the source of the problem. > > The piano is a Kimball console. My client says that when she plays the > piano while using the damper pedal, nothing is wrong. But when the piano is > played without the pedal, at least three keys stay down, and then slowly > come up. In fact, she said that when the keys are down, she'll press the > damper pedal, and they will return on their own. > > That is the situation, and if anyone has ideas, I will listen. > > Thank you in advance, > > ***TODD PIANO WORKS* > Matthew Todd, Piano Technician > (979) 248-9578 > http://www.toddpianoworks.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090218/a0b4876a/attachment.html>
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