Anybody Know About This?

[Paul Chick]

Michael
I was asked to look at an old Steinway in the back room of a nearby museum.
It had what appeared to be leather tapes attached to the ends of the
stickers and the back of the keys-no capstans. Some were broken. The rest
looked very fragile. I was afraid to make any attempt at pulling the action.
I have not found out yet how action removal should be done; and how is lost
motion regulated? Any one else seen one of these?
Paul Chick
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Jorgensen <Michael.Jorgensen@cmich.edu>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: Anybody Know About This?


>>
>
>Though perhaps only my second or third tuning, I'll never forget this,
>    An old upright which I cannot remember the brand really did me in.  I
>tried to take the action out only to find that the stickers were screwed
>directly to the keys (no capstans, just thin adjustable bolts connecting).
>By the time I realized this, some keys had been lifted above their balance
>pins and shifted enough that they wouldn't fall back into place.  I was
stuck
>holding an action up and had to have help with from the customer.  Somehow
I
>braced the action up and later with my fathers help managed to get the
whole
>thing back in.   Nightmare it was, in a farmhouse twenty miles beyond the
>edge of town.  To this day, I always look.
>-Mike Jorgensen
>