removing spinet action?

[pianolady50 at peoplepc.com]

Hardman Mini piano?  (sometimes says Eavestaff on the plate) Not easy if it 
is.  Try removing several keys at each end and in the middle.  Those lifter 
wires only have a hole to pass through rather than a slot.  Undo the leather 
nut at the wippen end of the wire and pull those wires up and out.  Keep 
them in order.  Then remove the entire keybed with frame, screwed to 
mounting blocks on sides of piano and sometimes to a metal brace midway. 
Swing metal retaining brackets away from top of action brackets.  Hold on to 
action while removing the treble and bass mounting screws that pass through 
the bottom of the treble and bass brackets. Lift the action out.

Good luck,
Debbie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noah Haverkamp" <noahhaverkamp at yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:41 PM
Subject: removing spinet action?


>I have removed my Winter spinet action many times without difficulty.
> But this other action I am working on now - I can't figure it out. It
> says Pratt-Read, and is like the thayer inverted sticker action in
> that it has a sticker flange rail, and capstans, But it has metal
> lifter wires which drop down beside the key and attach to the wippen
> with a screw-grommet at the bottom. I removed the sticker flange
> rail, and unscrewed the 3 action bracket bolts i could find (one
> above the action, 2 below the keybed area on the inside side of the
> case) as well as a screw on each side underneath the keybed i guess.
> plus i took out a couple or screws from behind the keys, which you
> had to remove a key impeding its accessibility. But i can't get the
> thing out. the top of the lifter wires remove from the sticker tongue
> easily enough. but do i need to unscrew each grommet under the
> wippens? if not it looks like the lifter wires will have to drop down
> below the keys to get them out of the way, if i remember correctly.
>   I don't know if i explained this clearly at all or not. Anyone?
> There is no name on the case anywhere but the plate says Hardman
> Peck. Serial # 150065
>
>
> Noah Haverkamp
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