<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>Last night I tuned a Wurlitzer spinet. The right pedal wasn't working, = so I took off the bottom board, and attached the rod. But I discovered = something interesting. Hanging by a piece of thread from one of the stickers= was a hugh washer, about 1 1/2" in diameter. Naturally I took it off, and&n= bsp;I found out that the reason the weight was on the sticker was to make th= e key work. Without the washer, the key stuck. So I lifted the key, and saw = that the problem was that the front bushing was folded over, creating l= ots of friction on the key. It took only a couple of seconds to correct the = problem. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't know if the washer was attached by a very incompetent piano tun= er, or by some ingenious customer. Lets hope it was the latter, but knowing = some of the technicians in this part of the country, it was probably the for= mer. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Willem Blees, RPT<BR>Piano tuner/technician<BR>School of Music<BR>Universit= y of Alabama<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>