[pianotech] Soft-fall mechanism

Wesley Hardman hardmanwesley84 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 21:23:08 MDT 2011


Serviced a two year old Boston grand today and needed to pull the action to
find out why b5 and c6 keys were binding. In the attempt to remove the
fallboard, I found what looked like a plastic coated wire attached to the
rear of the fallboard.  The attached wire ran down between two keys, through
a hole in the keybed, and hooked onto a mechanism underneath the piano that
operated in such fashion as to produce a slow fall of the fallboard.

Has anyone on this list had any experience with this type of mechanism?  If
so, who might be a distributor? Better yet, who might be the manufacturer.
I need to know how to go about detaching the wire in order to pull the
action without damaging the mechanism.

Wesley Hardman, RPT
Scottsboro, Alabama
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