<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Avery,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Came through here at 5:09. Those whip capstan dudes are a pain. The arm that reaches from the whip to the rocker arm pop off at the rocker. Just like the new plastic elbows pop onto the center pin in a spinet. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I have a customer with an old Bechstein grand and I have to replace a broken repetition spring every other year or so. It has these flanges and I enjoy it almost as much as the intestinal flu. I'm hoping I don't live long enough to be forced to do the entire set.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Chris</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 11, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Avery Todd wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>List(s), </div> <div> </div> <div>I need some information about an old Knabe grand (1893). It has the rocker arm "capstans" and I need to know how to get the stack off the keys! I tried to remove a wippen, but it was attached somehow to the key and I couldn't figure out how to remove it! There are a lot of sluggish jacks and I need to get the wippens out to be able to repin them. </div> <div> </div> <div>Another question. I think the dampers are the type that one has to screw up or down to regulate them (doesn't have the usual set screw) but I can't see how to get the upstop rail out of the way to be able to lift them high enough to be able to do that. I also can't see how to remove the underlevers to be able to work on them. </div> <div> </div> <div>I've just never worked on one of these before and I need some help/suggestions as to how to proceed! Can any of you "old" piano experts out there help me? </div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks. </div> <div> </div> <div>Avery Todd</div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Calligraphy; ; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Chalkboard"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Chalkboard; ">Christopher D. 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