Spinet Checking and Damper Regulation

[Newton Hunt]

Well, if you can't do what Ron N. suggests then here are a few little
tricks.

You can bend the backcheck wires two ways.  Hold the wippen down with a
screwdriver blade and push the backcheck with your finger which goes
between the lifters.  If the wire is too stiff or too springy you can
use a damper wire bender and bend the wire down near the bottom of the
wire.  Bend them all in a straight line but if the hammers check at
different points then the sharps may need more or less dip.  Some
variation is inevitable but try to keep it at a minimum.

As for dampers, the spoons are more easily accessed in a spinet than
other pianos, for the most part.  The damper wires as as easy, or hard,
to get to as on any other vertical piano.  

There are two issues here.  Removing the action is a pain in the
backside and doing the work is a pain in the back.  Otherwise everything
is the same as on a taller piano.

		Newton