> or I could get in trouble. Yes. If all the parts, dampers, levers, butts, hammers are in decent shape you might consider replacing the double flanges and lubricating the wippen flanges. That stuff cannot be removed but for a few months. It is like the cat that came back. Trouble? Aligning dampers, hammers and regulation. If you are a truly experienced technician it can be done. If you are not that experienced you will likely never get out of it. Those old parts are fragile and break when you look at them. Fix one and two break. If you replace all the action parts, butts, hammers, damper levers and wippens you could end up with an astonishingly fabulous piano but replacing S&S upright parts is a real bear. There are folks out there that have had a lot of experience with these pianos. You are opening a humongous can of worms. But if you worms with your spigetti then have at it! Newton (Been there, doing that)
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