[CAUT] Renner underlevers

[Alan McCoy]

How quick? 2 hours? If so, then remove the upstop rail and refelt it. Then
reregulate. Or you might try to remove the rail without unscrewing all the
set screws. Which means unscrewing the guide rail and sliding the upstop
rail up the belly rail and under the loose guide rail on top of the
soundboard. Then shimmied out from under the strings, refelted and put back.
Houdini-like maneuver to be sure, but if you can do it, you'll avoid the
reregulation.

Alan 


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy@mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


> From: Dennis Johnson <johnsond@stolaf.edu>
> Reply-To: <johnsond@stolaf.edu>, "College and University Technicians
> <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:52:05 -0600
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] Renner underlevers
> 
> 
> I just discovered a problem with the Renner underlevers, as retrofitted
> for Steinways, and wondering what anyone else may have decided to do by
> way of a solution.  These underlevers are conveniently manufactured with
> a nice, lubed slot to accommodate a spring- if necessary or desired.
>  The originals did not.  It's a good thing to make them a little more
> universal by adding a such a slot-  but unfortunately with only a few
> years of heavy playing in a piano studio the edges of that slot have cut
> into the stop felt, big time.  In this particular case reliable
> regulation of the sostenuto will not be possible until that stop felt is
> replaced but there will not time for that until summer, at best.
> 
> Has anyone else found this problem?  These underlevers were installed
> maybe 5 years ago along with new Renner stop felt.  Nothing against the
> parts otherwise, of course, and maybe they are made differently now- or
> maybe they only slot the bass levers.  That I don't know for sure.  I do
> need a quick fix, however.  The guy returns from tour tomorrow........
> ugh.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> dennis johnson
> St. Olaf.
> 
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