Election Day Puzzla

[bhebert]

Tom,
Is it possible that the hammer shank was glued in with one of those large
shank-bevels that was popular onsome actions in the 70's?  The shank angle
could be different on that hammer.  This would put the letoff at a
different point in the blow.  If this is what is happening, you might have
to reset the hammer shank in the hammer butt or increase the dip beyond
normal.

Blaine Hebert
bhebert@compuserve.com

Tom Cole wrote:

> A Story and Clark console, which otherwise works perfectly, has one
> problem: G3 (third note up from the bass break) does not play when the
> soft pedal is depressed. If you manually push the rest rail toward the
> strings and manually push on the back check, the same thing happens -
> the jack will not escape, unless you push fairly hard.
>
> So the problem is in the action. The shape of the butt and the condition
> of the butt leather seem normal (for a Story and Clark). The string cuts
> in the hammers are very light. Installing a thicker butt felt didn't
> help. There was no debris in the action.
>
> For you computer geeks, yes, I went outside and came back in again and
> that didn't help! :-)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tom Cole



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