Ursula Hammerling Registered Piano Technician 48 Winged Foot Lane Washington, NJ 07882 tel 908-835-0033 cell 908-507-1505 UrsulaPianoTuning at yahoo.com --- On Fri, 2/19/10, ChicagoTuner at aol.com <ChicagoTuner at aol.com> wrote: From: ChicagoTuner at aol.com <ChicagoTuner at aol.com> Subject: Re: [pianotech] help To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 6:48 PM Greetings, In a message dated 2/19/2010 5:07:54 P.M. Central Standard Time, ursulapianotuning at yahoo.com writes: Hello, I very much like an answer to a problem, that I encountered today. I wanted to open a Premier Baby Grand 4'9" and I stumbled upon a problem removing the action. I removed the fall board with cheek blocks attached, and the key slip. There were no other screws holding the action in place. I also removed part of the trap work since I thought, that the broken 'soft' pedal might have something sticking upward to make removing of the action impossible.Part of the trap work my not be enough, check the lyre screws (if any) going into the keybed, if they stick up far enough, they will hold on to the action. I was able to lift the front of the action up so I could look underneath, whether a screw might have been drilled through the key bead and so impeding the removal of the action. There was nothing visible. So, perhaps you covered my previous point, but, it might be hard to see, it doesn't take much to hold the action. The bass side of the action gave way to about 1/8 of an inch, the treble side moved nothing. (The sustain pedal shifts from right to left). The action felt like being screwed to the back of the piano.Check the screws or bolts that hold the legs in front, sometimes there are different sizes and the movers put the long ones into the action cavity and the short ones in the back leg. Michael, Chicago Thank you Michael, I will check on that. I also saw 2 bolts in the piano bench, maybe the answer lies there. Does anybody have an idea what I might have missed? Thanks for looking at this. Ursula Hammerling, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100220/69399f69/attachment.htm>
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