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[FRED W TREMPER]

Gina:

I believe it was Fred Odenheimer who said the first thing you should do is 
tighten all the action screws.  The second thing is to make sure the action 
screws are tight.

Fred

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 EugeniaCar@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 97-11-25 07:05:28 EST, Michael.Jorgensen@cmich.edu writes:
> 
> << Fun riddle! All good ideas sofar except you isolated it to the wippen,
>  so I vote for loose action rails (letoff/hammer and wippen and
>  associated screws) because it affects a whole gang of notes together.
>  Check also that the rep springs are not contacting the wood in the
>  windows they pass through.
>  -Mike Jorgensen RPT >>
> 
> 
> Good for you Mike,
> 
> Yep the culprit was the action rail screws, the ones under the hammer flanges
> that we usually don't see without looking for them. It took me about a half
> hour before I tried tightening them as the solution and when that did it, it
> was hand to the forehead time (the duh effect). What immediately popped into
> my mind was LaRoy's admonition - the first thing to do when regulating is to
> tighten the action screws. Funny that such an "elementary" technique should
> trip me up after all these years. :-)
> 
> Gina Carter
> 
> 

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