Action Position Adjustment

[Overs Pianos]

>Older Kawai grand. The piano lacks tone in the top two octaves - 
>progressively gets worse toward C88. Cearly, C88 is hitting the 
>string at the capo - clearly the action is too far forward. However, 
>the key bed has three or four wooden stop blocks screwed to it that 
>prevent the action from being moved further back (what are those 
>blocks called?). I have not run into this before. What is the best 
>fix? Removing, plugging, and redrilling the stop blocks would be 
>difficult in the cramped quarters of the action cavity. Should I 
>just carefully plane/cut off a few millimeters from the rear rail of 
>the action frame and then position with the adjustable thingees 
>(what are they called?) in the cheek blocks?
>
>Seems to me it's one or the other. Any better suggestions? Thanks.
>
>Terry Farrell

Terry,

I my first year of piano work, working at Sydney's distributor for 
Kawai, we regularly moved the action and keyboard assembly back to 
correct for strike ratio problems in the high treble. Our solution 
was to plane a bit off the back of the keyframe also.

Ron O.

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