A mouse's calling card? This can happen with pianos that have been a warehouse. Debris can be knocked loose from shipment. I have also seen (once) a new piano with mis-placed front rail pins. Also in the mortice holes as David says too long a bushing, and also splinters. R Moody ---------- > From: Ronald R Shiflet <ron_and_lorene@juno.com> > To: Pianotech@byu.edu > Subject: Next Quiz > Date: Wednesday, January 29, 1997 10:56 AM > > I went out as promised to work on my customers brand new grand > piano. She complained that A below middle C sticks. I tired and tried > but couldn't make it stick. I played slow, I played fast, > soft...hard...nothing. I even tuned the piano but noticed nothing. As > I went to leave I told her that I couldn't find it. Then she said that > as soon as I left it would start sticking again. I felt guilty so I > looked again. Then I felt a slight heaviness when I slowly pushed the > key down. > I decided to find out if it was in the action or the keybed. The > action had no apparent discrepancies. I decided it was in the key so I > tested to see if it was in the balance hole or the front mortise. I > lifted up at the key and the balance hole felt fine so I pushed the key > down slowly and then it felt fine. I was really puzzled so I took the > action stack off from the key frame. What did I find? > > Ron Shiflet
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