Carol: That one rates a 7 on the Tremper Stupidity Index. I'll bet you had fun readjusting all those capstan screws> Fred On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Carol R. Beigel wrote: > Back in the days when I first started doing service calls, I went to tune an > upright piano and discovered the touch was way too loose. It didn't dawn on > me that the reason the lady called me in the first place, was that her > grandchildren had been "horsing around" the piano, and somehow, it didn't > seem right after their visit. Since there was so much lost motion, I took > the keys out of the piano to adjust the capstans. After much hard work, I > finally had the touch where I wanted it. THEN, I noticed the hammer rail > was about a half inch forward of where it should have been! Turned out the > grandkids had been playing with the pedals, and the soft pedal dowel pin was > sitting NEXT to the hole in the trap lever, not thru it! Taught me to check > the pedals FIRST before doing any action adjustments! > > Carol Beigel, RPT > Greenbelt, Maryland > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred W. Tremper, RPT Morehead State University Morehead, KY 40351 f.trempe@morehead-st.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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