Sick Steck

[Michael Spalding]

Jenneetah,

Thanks for the DAMHIK about approaches which will cause wirebending versus
those which won't - While I'm not afraid of it when necessary, why do it if
it's not? (necessary).

Of course I'm going to replace the key end felt, but I was looking for a
way to increase the overlap, so as to make the new stuff wear longer/better
than the original.  Given the wirebending issue, I will look at extending
the keys, or at least letting the felt hang off the back of the key a
little bit, along with checking and improving the angular relation of keys
to underlevers (magic line and all that), which may have more to do with
the felt wear than the amount of overlap.

Mike 


> [Original Message]
> From: Jenneetah <yardbird@vermontel.net>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 7/30/2004 8:29:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Sick Steck
>
> At 7:44 AM -0500 7/30/04, Michael Spalding wrote:
> >Anyone seen this before?  Can I just re-glue the felt onto the tab, 
> >or should I plan to replace parts (might be interesting trying to 
> >find sostenuto parts for a 1930 Steck).
>
> Fixed tabs or hinged wooden tabs? Mox nix. Regluing the felt (or even 
> making and installing new fixed tabs) is simple compared to the briar 
> patch you'll head into assuming that the replacement posts (if 
> available separately from the entire back action package) are close 
> enough to the original Stecks to swap without creating (at a minimum) 
> at lot of wire bending.
>
> DAMHIK
>
> >Also, very short engagement of underlevers on key ends, and 
> >therefore some severe wear of key-end felt.  Can't move the action 
> >in, can I shim the back action out?
>
> Again, shimming the back action out will create alot of wire bending. 
> Remember that the scale stick (hammer strike line and the damper 
> line) widens as you move it forward towards the action.
>
> You'll gain two things by replacing the key-end end felt: 1.) the 
> realization that it's one of the simplest job we can do in an action 
> rebuild, and 2.) doing it this way saves you from one of the most 
> complex areas of piano rebuilding, proper damper regulation.
>
> Like Ben Stiller says in "Starsky and Hutch", "Juh dough eh"
>
> :-)
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