My experience with Nordiska is fairly limited, but I would say the über-tight damper flange problem is not uncommon for pianos, such as the Nordiska, made at Dongbei Piano. Especially if they aren't "dealer prepped" to the nth degree, which I have failed to find in the field. Patrick Draine BrickaMASS On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > > I serviced a Nordiska grand yesterday. It wasn't that far out of tune, and > being in the beginning of seasonal transition, it was a lousy time to be > doing a church tuning. But - there was this sticking damper, you see, which > was the real reason for the tuning. > > I pulled the action, and crawled into the cavity with whatever light > sources I could point in the general direction of the problem, and started > looking. I centered the wire, eliminating side pressure on the bushing, and > that helped, but didn't do it, so I pulled the wire. Yup, the post pinning > was way tight. I dropped the sostenuto and raised the up stop rail out of > the way, and got the under lever out. Yup, the flange pinning was way tight > too. So I repinned and FINALLY managed to get the sucker back in (the screws > are flat ended, and too hard to file). When I had the lever out, I showed > the office resident what the problem was and promised him that this wasn't > the end of it. I suggested doing the one for now, and when the others start > seizing up too and force the issue, we could do the set then. > > Now, for those of you with some experience with Nordiska, besides having > the usual painfully strident, thin, and LOUD sound, and the heaviest music > desk on the planet (I like that one), is this center pinning thing typical? > Ron N > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101002/92432687/attachment.htm>
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