What are the climatic (RH variance) conditions? Have you checked hammer travel? Are all hammers spaced evenly? Is the screw that stops the shift pedal stable (not loose, wobbly)?With a bit of time back at the piano (not in a big rush to get to the next appt.), I'm sure you will figure it out. Patrick Draine On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Shawn Brock <shawnbrock at fuse.net> wrote: > List, > > call me an amateur but this is one problem I have yet to come up with a fix > for. I have a client who has an early/mid 80s Schimmel grand in superb > condition. It was not played much at all before he bought it about 3 years > ago. He is quite the player so I see him regularly for tuning and the > normal repairs. The problem is this, hammer flanges that won't stay put! > On 3 different occasions he has called me to come out because when he uses > the shift and sustain together he will have 1 hammer striking 2 unisons. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081212/7fd069d0/attachment.html>
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