[CAUT] fallboard vs. keytops

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List,



Just saw a two year old grand made by a top manufacturer.? The client had complained that the fallboard
didn't fit right.? When lifted, it would ride up off the pin on which
it rotates on the treble end.? (So it's a "pin in the rim" as opposed
to a pin in thefallboard design.)? Upon removing the fallboard , it was
apparent that the shipping rail (AKA key hold down rail?--don't have my
copy of Mason handy at the moment) was much too high on the treble
end.? Regulated it correctly, and thefalboard no longer rides up.? NOW the problem is that when the fallboard
is raised, it depresses about half the keys, mostly on the treble end.?
(I know, I know: depressed keys get Prozac.)? The problem of thefallboard
pushing the keys down may have been one of the previous "tooners'"
motivation to raise the shipping rail, thereby solving one problem
while causing another.? (Makes someone who is competent look like a
hero by comparison, eh?)



The (original) owner says that no action work (like, say, oh, raising
the key height) has been done, and from the wear pattern, that does
look to be the case.? I suppose there is a possibility that it came
from the manufacturer this way.? It is conceivable that thefallboard
had never been on with the action in at the factory until it went out.?
At which time either no one noticed (!) or someone did notice but let
it go anyway (!!!).? If, however, we assume that "something has gone
wrong" that wasn't wrong to begin with, what could it be?? 



Thanks,



Alan Eder
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