The "Mozart piano" (Viennese of that early era, at least the ones I have seen) has a "drawer/spacer" underneath the action/keyframe. So you remove that and the keyframe/action drops to the keybed. It is now easy to pull out (with the usual care). Reverse is sliding it back in, then raising the front and shoving the "drawer" under the keyframe, and it raises the back as it goes in. This later style just has the ridiculously steep skids in the back, as I remember from the one instrument like that I reconditioned and partially rebuilt many years ago. My memory is vague, other than the raw terror of the first time trying to get the darned thing back in. I thought maybe there was a better way. I guess it is just a matter of doing it often enough and it becomes routine, along with it needing some lubrication. And the other suggestions about things that might have come unglued. Thanks, all, I'll pass it along. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Mar 14, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Scott Jackson wrote: > Fred, > Is Ed Swenson's article on removing and regulating the Viennese > action of any help? > See > http://www.mozartpiano.com/en/articles/viennese.php > > Scott Jackson > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090314/599a56ba/attachment.html>
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