While we're on the subject of odd pianos, I am working on a George Steck baby grand with an action that is new to me. It has a spring loaded lever assembly that rotates the wippens forward when a pedal is depressed, causing the hammers to rise with out introducing any lost motion. This duplicates the soft pedal action on an upright. Interesting idea, but it makes regulating the action a challenge, particularly when levelling and setting dip. The other oddity, which I noticed in another Steck baby grand several years back, is that the drop screw end of the wippen levers rub the hammer rail, to the point that the levers bind and prevent the wippens from returning to the rest position. On both pianos I wound up having to rout out the back of the hammer rail with a Dremel tool to gain sufficient clearance. On the first piano someone in the past had tried to get clearance by shimming the rail, with little success. Any one have a better way of dealing with these issues? Thanks, Patrick C. Poulson Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild
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