OK, I think I¹m pushing my own envelope now, and really need some advice from the experts. I took on a 1915 Steinway M action for rebuilding (all new parts verdigris). Have had it in storage for a few months because customer was out of the country and wanted me to take it. Anyway, now that I¹m looking at it more closely, I realize that when the keys were recovered about 20 years ago with 1/16² plastic, no routing down of keysticks, but solid, clean job. Sharps appear to be the original ebony in very good shape. Keyframe felts are a mess. When I lifted backrail cloth, somebody shimmed it with a thin cardboard under the red felt and glued both sides of green down (isn¹t backside usually not glued?). I¹m guessing this was because the new keytops brought the keys too high for fallboard or hammer stop rail? However, my key height measurements show height about 3/32² lower than 2-19/32² spec. Dip is shallow, too. Relationship of sharp to natural is excellent as currently set up, however. I don¹t have the piano here, so can¹t check key height, etc. against case parts. :( With replacement keytops mentioned above, will I be able to make this action work after installing all new frame felts and new S&S hammers, shanks, flanges, wippens, let-off regulating buttons? Should I expect the worst, or might tolerances be wide enough that I can put a proper regulation on it? Are we ever lucky enough that when keytops have been replaced without routing keystick, the action still works? Thanks for any insight you can provide. Paul -- Paul Milesi, RPT Washington, DC (202) 667-3136 E-mail: paul at pmpiano.com Website: http://www.pmpiano.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091213/2a03a687/attachment.htm>
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