<HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Methinks you got your left and right ends mixed up when reinstalling the fall strip or nameboard stip, depending on how the piano is configured and assuming this piece is not hinged to the fallboard intself.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Or--as has happened to me--you put the screws into the wrong screw holes on the blocks or the strip, itself.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, MO</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Mike Kurta <MKURTA@ADELPHIA.NET><BR>Sent: Nov 5, 2005 6:56 PM <BR>To: Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Subject: Sharps knocking puzzler <BR><BR></DIV><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"><ZZZMETA content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name="GENERATOR"> <STYLE></STYLE> </ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY bgColor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Here's one that took me 1 hour to figure out:  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Older upright (name not important).  Keys and action removed for repairs, cabinet sent to refinisher.  Piano returned home, I return to reassemble and tune.  Everything fine until I play and find that the inner ends of all the sharps hit the front of the open fallboard upon release.  Keyframe was not removed, same sharps refinished only.  I'm about to file the inner ends of all the sharps to make clearance until I finally see the light!  It took two minutes to correct them all.  What did I do?  </FONT></DIV></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BODY><PRE> Salem, Missouri </PRE>