damper liftrods

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    Eliot,

    Just a couple of questions first. By Damper Lift Rod, I take it to mean
the rod which goes behind the damper levers, not the dowel (wood/metal,
whatever.) which goes from the trapwork up to the  action. Right?
        Now, if you're looking at the one that actually lifts the levers off
the strings, and it's straight, that's good. Pretty hard to bend one of
those just by tipping a piano over. It's the little hooks that have to line
up. If you sight down them, you'll probably see that the right one is bent
inward. Just gently bend it back.
    Must have been quite a crash for the jacks to come unglued. You'll also
have to check the main action rails to see that they're tight, and the dogs
holding the damper lift rod.
    I'm sure that you'll get other good info too, just my two cents.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliot Lee" <eliotlee1@cox.net>
To: "Ptech" <Pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: damper liftrods


> Hello,
>
>     I got a distress call from a Church to fix a Kawai UST-6 that tipped
> over off its piano truck and fell on its back.    Don't ask me how, it is
in
> a gymnasium maybe one of the basketball players bumped into it.
>
>     I found 5 jacks unglued the front board cracked and a problem with the
> damper lift rod.
>
>     If you are not familiar with these models, the damper pedal rod is on
> the right side, the middle pedal is a bass damper lift connected to the
> right damper pedal on the left side.
>
>     The problem is that the bass dampers and tenor dampers lift, but the
> treble dampers do not lift at all when the pedal is pressed.  Individually
> the dampers lift with each note being played so I do not think that it was
> the spoons being bent.
>
>     I removed the damper lift rod and it looks straight.
>
> `   Any idea what else to look for?
>
> Thanks, Eliot Lee