YC Brackets, again

[Avery Todd]

Terry,

Thanks for the info you gave ME! :-) I haven't contacted Phil yet but plan
on doing so today or tomorrow. Is this his correct e-mail address? I haven't
gone to their web site yet. Sorry. PhilGlenn@yca.tzo.com

Avery


At 08:14 PM 06/06/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Perhaps two things here. The growing brackets I just found were on a YC 
>serial number 056801. I've heard that the affected brackets were on pianos 
>with serial numbers starting with "0". Yours appears to be from the same 
>era as mine. I should think the most definitive way is to measure action 
>spread. It should be 112.5 mm. The spread on this action was about 122 mm. 
>Phil Glenn from YC is already in the process of sending me brackets. 
>Thanks all for the info you gave me.
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
>To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:49 PM
>Subject: YC Brackets, again
>
>
> > List,
> >
> > I have some questions about this for those of you who've actually
> > been through it. How does one know for SURE that it's the "growing"
> > bracket syndrome?
> >
> > I've never actually seen it personally but I looked at a Young
> > Chang G-157, #059894 today that had hammers blocking on the
> > strings when the key was played. I could usually trip the jack
> > by hand and the hammer would drop some.
> >
> > What I DIDN'T see was everything I've read about it. I was able
> > to easily pull the action out; the drop screws didn't scrape on
> > the underside of the pin block, etc.
> >
> > Besides the blocking, all I could see was that the underside of
> > the drop screw was AWFULLY close to the front edge of the wippen
> > buckskin and the jacks were mostly WAY too far back under the
> > knuckle.
> >
> > Besides measuring the spread (which I don't know what it's supposed
> > to be) how can one know for sure?
> >
> > It's had water leak/damage in the middle and 1st treble section and
> > the string and plate are rusty there. I can also see evidence of it
> > by stains on the action rails and a few of the shanks.
> >
> > I just don't want to do the "growing action brackets" thing without
> > being sure. Any ideas how I can BE sure? Thanks.
> >
> > Avery
> >
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