[pianotech] help

[Ursula Hammerling]

I will try that. Thank you for your input.
Ursula

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--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Ken & Pat Gerler <kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net> wrote:

From: Ken & Pat Gerler <kenneth.gerler at prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] help
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 1:15 PM



 
Ursula,

It sound like the wrong screws was used to attach a leg and the screw 
has just penetrated the keybed just slightly to hold the action. Back off the 
leg screws on the right a turn or two and see if the action will come out.  
I have run across that in the past.

Ken Gerler

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Ursula Hammerling 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:23 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] help
  

  
    
    
      

Joseph,

I lubricated that spring while I 
        was there because I had thoughts about that too. And yes ,you are right, 
        the spring is on the bass side of the piano, but that is also the side 
        that buckles a little bit.(I am sorry, I meant the shift pedal shifts to 
        the left and not the sustain pedal in my original mail.) It seems the 
        action is hanging on the right rear side. 
I guess from what else I 
        read in other mails, I will have to look for a hidden screw that holds 
        tight in some way the right back of the action.

Thank you for 
        your input.
Ursula

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, Joseph Alkana 
        <josephspiano at comcast.net> wrote:

        
From: 
          Joseph Alkana <josephspiano at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: 
          [pianotech] help
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Friday, February 
          19, 2010, 6:25 PM


          
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          Correction, if action shifts to 
          left, then check the spring which is probably located to the bass 
          side. I got hung up in your terminology of the “sustain pedal shifts” 
          verbiage and spaced. I don’t think you mean the sustain shifts, do 
          you? Whatever end the silly spring is on for the soft pedal function, 
          check it for a bad dug-into-the-wood problem with the 
          keyframe.
          Joseph Alkana 
          RPT  (Retired)
           
          
          
          
          
          From: 
          pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Joseph 
          Alkana
Sent: Friday, 
          February 19, 2010 3:15 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] 
          help
           
          Check the return spring for the 
          soft pedal action on the treble end to see if it is dug into the wood 
          there on the side of the keyframe. It could be hung up, not allowing 
          you to pull the action forward. Been there, done that, already thrown 
          away the T-shirt.
           
          Joseph Alkana RPT 
          (Retired)
          
          
          
          
          From: 
          pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ursula 
          Hammerling
Sent: 
          Friday, February 19, 2010 3:01 PM
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




           



      
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