[pianotech] help

[Ursula Hammerling]

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









      
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