James, Denny Burger (of what used to be Kimball-Bosendorfer) had a tool made to address this problem. It was the end of a normal tool, cut off and then silver-soldered to a length of "thickish" core wire. The other end of the core wire was then set into resin in a wooden handle. This thing fit into the smallest spaces between the dowels, and still was strong enough to provide good torque. Of course, Yamaha makes a tapered tool, which also works... Best. Horace >List, > My main problem with Y-C grands is that the jack slips out from >under the >knuckle on harder blows and the note will not fire and must be >re-positioned on many of the notes, also true on the Wurlitzer Y-C's. >There is very little clearance to get the tool thru the dowels in front of >the regulating screws. >James Grebe from St. Louis >pianoman@inlink.com Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu "Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde LiNCS voice: 725-4627 Stanford University fax: 725-9942
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