This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I have to tune some pianos in the practice studios of a college for a = piano competition next week, and I encountered a problem with a Baldwin = Hamilton studio console upright today. During the tuning I accidentally = dropped a wedge mute into the action, and it rested on the hammer butts. = When I tried to retrieve it I accidentally dislodged the hammer but = spring which is a straight whisker-like spring that comes down = vertically from a rail and presses on a felt pad on the hammer butt. It = ended up sticking out at an angle. I tried to put it back on the felt = pad of the hammer butt with my fingers, and then displaced an adjacent = spring. There was no room to maneuver. Please could someone advise me what the best and easiest way would be to = put the hammer butt springs back in place? I assume there is no tool I = could use to grasp the springs and put them back in place? Will I have = to take the action out of the piano to gain access to the springs? I am a learning about piano tuning and repair. This is the first problem = I have encountered, so it should be good practice and experience for me. = I am concerned though that this is unfamiliar territory. I have to fix = the piano and complete the tuning tomorrow so that it will be ready for = the contestants. I have taken a grand piano action out before without = any problems, but not a vertical one, so I am concerned whether = something else more serious might become dislodged.=20 I found this Baldwion Hamilton piano difficult to work with because = there was very little space to put a rubber wedge mute or felt = temperament strip mute. That is why the rubber mute dropped into the = action.=20 Any advice anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you = very much.=20 Robert Finley ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a5/68/fc/09/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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