Kawai Underlever Tray

[Carol Beigel]

Actually, there is a neat little trick to this.  Kawai actually came out 
with a "technical paper" or some such years ago that explained how to 
replace the damper tray flanges without removing the dampers.  Perhaps it is 
still available (I will look on the Journal CD) and so are the replacement 
flanges.

The gist of the "trick" is to:

1) remove the screws that hold the damper guide rails onto the soundboard

2)remove the damper upstop rail, or wedge it very, very high

3) lift up and forward (towards the keys) on the unscrewed damper guide 
rails so the damper levers are now up and out of the way of the damper tray

4) use a LONG screwdriver (10-12 inches) to remove from the top of the 
strings, the screws that hold these tray flanges to the damper tray

Actually, once you get the hang of this, the entire repair or replacement of 
the tray flanges takes less than an hour1

Good luck!


Carol Beigel, RPT

>From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Kawai Underlever Tray
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:35:45 -0000
>
>List:
>
>I've run into this problem on several Kawai grands and am interested in any
>input.  The plastic flanges that hinge the underlever tray either break or
>the pins get loose or shear off.  Access to these without removing the
>dampers seems most difficult.  Any suggestions as to how to approach
>replacing these flanges without removing all the dampers would be
>appreciated.  I am inclined to replace these flanges with wooden flanges.
>Is this a standard flange?  Available from?
>
>Thanks
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