Kawai CX-5 Key Slip

[Avery Todd]

Hi Robo (or what is your name, anyway?)

    Just wait until you have to work on one of the new Baldwin
grands with their new slow fall fall board and the keys are binding
on the key slip!

Avery

At 09:35 PM 11/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>      I don't how many you are aware of this but for those of you aren't be
>forewarned.I have been seeing CX-5's and CX21's with a nasty sticking key
>problem.The white keys are binding on the keyslip.The problem is you have to
>remove the entire key frame to remove the key slip so you can then remove the
>piece of wood that holds the keyslip to the piano with screws that are on top
>of the keybed under the key frame.In the past I have then cut up bussiness
>cards and spaced that piece out so it clears the white keys.Today I found a
>new complication to this problem in that the strip of wood on the back of the
>key slip was glued on as well as screwed.So with a very annoying customer
>watching I had to pry off the piece so I could shim it so the piano would
>play.Ahh remember the much maligned Kimball console...At least that had only
>four to screws to remove the key slip and then they had handy little screws
>at the front of the key frame that allowed for easy adjustment of a binding
>keyslip............Any thoughts???