Hi Ursula, If I may make a request, please let us know what you find. Myself just starting out in the buz, need all I can get in tips like this. Good luck with it, Scott Gray On 2/20/2010 10:42 AM, Benj. D. Palmer wrote: > Hi Ursula, > > I'll chime in on the 'lowered panel' keybed idea, and the possibility > that one of the pedal return spring/wooden slats may have broken. > They could hang up on either the back rail or balance rail and still > allow you to lift and shift. Do all the pedals work properly? > > -Ben Palmer >> >> >> *From:* pianotech-bounces at ptg.org >> [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] *On Behalf Of *Ursula Hammerling >> *Sent:* Saturday, 20 February 2010 9:31 AM >> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org >> *Subject:* [pianotech] help >> >> >> 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. 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. 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. >> >> Does anybody have an idea what I might have missed? >> >> Thanks for looking at this. >> >> >> Ursula Hammerling, RPT >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pianotech mailing list >> pianotech at ptg.org >> http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100220/7bf460df/attachment.htm>
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