<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dear List-</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Last summer I rebuilt the action of a Baldwin SF-10 using Abel Encore shanks and flanges. (I also used Tokiwa wippens with adjustable assist springs and made strike weight and front weight continuities.  Results were very good.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This was the student piano in a teacher's studio,  so it has had about 20 hours a week with student playing, and the teacher used it for practice as well.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Last week the teacher complained of "slow repetition" on 3 mid-range notes, which were caused by the action centers seizing at the hammer flange.  They give an audible squeak when moved!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I understand this was a  problem a few years back with Abel flanges, supposedly not happening any more.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Can anyone share knowledge and experience on this....if anybody's home...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ed Sutton</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>