[pianotech] spinet repetition problems

[Ron Nossaman]

Servicing spinet actions in situ requires someone who is small and made 
out of rubber. I've been neither for a really long time, so I usually 
have to pull the action to shrink centers, lube it, or make repairs. 
With the action out, I end up doing a more thorough job because I can 
reach everything easily, so I think that's most often the way to go 
anyway. What I like least is doing a repair with the action in place, 
taking way longer than it should have because I couldn't both reach and 
see what I was doing at the same time, standing up and getting my joints 
almost working again, and finding another similar problem or two a few 
notes over. Grrrrr, creak, pop!

Ron N