That's the way early Steinways were built. After you've tried all of the various fixes to adjust those jacks you'll probably find that you'd have been better off simply replacing them. Sooner or later every owner of these old things has to bite that bullet.. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Sowers Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 6:38 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] No jack position adjustment on older Steinway A. I consulted with a client today about his early 1900's Steinway A. The client has been unhappy with the heavy touch, so one of the things I checked was jack postion. I then discovered that there was no adjustment for the jack position! This is the first time I've seen this. I'm thinking maybe the easiest way to adjust it is to put a paper shim on the back of the jack. Any other ideas? How unusual is this? -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101112/ee0f16b7/attachment.htm>
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