<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I would think the cheekblocks, had been mounted wrong, which brought the fallboard forward?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mkurta@adelphia.net href="mailto:mkurta@adelphia.net">Mike Kurta</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 05, 2005 8:56 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Sharps knocking puzzler</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>