Spring cord repair; partial job discovered

[Avery]

At 09:49 AM 1/27/2007, you wrote:
>  It seems like every other grey market Yamaha upright I run into 
> has breaking hammer return spring cords.

Believe me! It's not only the grey market pianos that have this problem!!!!!!!

Avery

>I did yet another replacement job yesterday, this time in the 
>customers garage, where temperatures hovered around 50 degrees 
>farenheit all morning.  It's hard to manipulate all those little 
>pieces of thread with numb fingers.  Still, after getting better at 
>the repetitive tasks required on this job, I cut about an hour off 
>my previous time.
>
>The interesting about this particular U3 is that somebody had 
>already replaced some of the cords--but only on the notes with no 
>dampers.  Somebody obviously found the breaking cord problem, but 
>wanted to sell the piano with a minimum of expense.  All the other 
>notes would function to some degree without the hammer return 
>spring, but without the push of the damper spring, the end keys 
>would have a helluva time returning to position.  Pretty shoddy.
>
>Dave Stahl
>
>Dave Stahl Piano Service
>650-224-3560
>dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net
>http://dstahlpiano.net/
>
>
>
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