<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I had a similar thing happen = once.  Only to discover after turning all those capstan screws that the action = simply wasn’t seated properly! J</fon= t>   Jonathan Finger = RPT   -----Original = Message----- From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Piannaman@aol.com Sent: Thursday, January = 30, 2003 9:17 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Interesting = Problems in a Seiler upright   Today I went out to service a Seiler model 131(top of the line with magnetically assisted action) that is around 3 years old.  The = owner complained of dampers not working. When I arrived at his home, I found that the piano was so far out of = regulation that I felt obliged to look for structural damage in the instrument. =  I have never seen a piano so far out of whack.  There was no cracked = plate, no warped keybed(it has a metal frame under the keyboard), nothing out = of place, no signs of anything broken.  The hammers were between 1/4 = and 1/2 inch off the rail, and most of them blocked against the strings when = played with a moderate to hard blow.  I thought of trying to raise the = action bracket bolts(the ones they rest on on the keybed) to raise the entire = action up a small amount, but they were as high as they could go without = bending the nose bolts upward. I figured it was a humidity problem that had caused some swelling. =  That's a helluva a lot of swelling, though.  I ended up having to turn the capstans down more than one complete turn, then re-regulate the let-off = and the back checks.  It came out fine, but I am wondering why  this happened.  According to the lady of the house, it went from good to unplayable in about a month.  It was almost as if someone had given = a toddler some tools and told him to go play with the action.   Anybody ever seen anything like this in a really high quality = instrument? Dave Stahl </div> </body> </html>