[pianotech] Soft-fall mechanism

[Greg Newell]

Wesley,

                That was attached to a bellows like thing, yes? QRS makes
those.

 

Greg Newell

Greg's Piano Forté

www.gregspianoforte.com

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216-470-8634 (mobile)

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Wesley Hardman
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 11:23 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Soft-fall mechanism

 

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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