<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 10" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C4073F.753DB950" rel=File-List><o:SmartTagType name="PersonName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType> <STYLE> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </STYLE> <STYLE>  </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma; tab-interval: .5in" vLink=purple link=blue bgColor=white> <DIV>Lance, please don't overwhelm our caut website with stuff like this.</DIV> <DIV>Hans >>> llafargue@charter.net 3/11/2004 9:04:20 AM >>> </DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000"> <DIV class=Section1> I had a customer with a nice C7 and he had a damper that wouldn’t work, so after 3 techs looked at it, they left 3 large metal clips attached to the damper head to make it dampen.  The touchweight on that key was tremendous.  It turned out the wire was bent front to back and rubbing on the belly of the piano under the edge of the soundboard when the key was depressed, causing the problem.  When I pulled the wire forward and pulled the clips off in 5 seconds, the owner was a little amazed to have it work great.    <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <DIV> <st1:PersonName>Lance Lafargue</st1:PersonName>, RPT<o:p></o:p> LAFARGUE PIANOS<o:p></o:p> New Orleans Chapter, PTG<o:p></o:p> 985.72P.IANO<o:p></o:p> <st1:PersonName>llafargue@charter.net</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:38 AM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: new meaning for weighing keys <o:p> </o:p> <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 I found out that the reason the weight was on the sticker was to make the 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 lots of friction on the key. It took only a couple of seconds to correct the problem. <o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV>  <o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV> I don't know if the washer was attached by a very incompetent piano tuner, 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 former. <o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV>  <o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV> Wim <o:p></o:p></DIV> <DIV> Willem Blees, RPT Piano tuner/technician School of Music University of Alabama<o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>