<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV>Some pianos should just never be made....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think these are made in the Chinese Young Chang plant.  They loo= k suspiciously like those little 107 jobbers that break jack springs from time= to time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>First ("free") tuning presented a plethora of problems(Am I almost as allitertive as Alan:-).  The hammers were a good half inch off the rail= , keys were tight, yada, yada, yada....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The REAL problem was that the keyboard is so poorly weighted that there= is so much downweight in the black keys at either end of the keyboard that the action weight and springs can't hoist them back = into position, with damper pedal on or off.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I didn't take readings, but I could feel huge weight differences f= rom one key to the next.  After everything was regulated as well as possible, keys eased, keypins lubed, the jacks still could not force th= eir way back under the butts, despite a healthy dose of teflon powder...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I stretched the jack springs to increase tension, though&nbsp= ;if I had time I'd have replaced them with stronger ones.  This seemed to g= et the thing to function.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Short of pulling leads out of the fronts of the keys, any other id= eas helping this action?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave S.</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>