<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=768465315-05052006>Check the jack spring.  I recently had this sort of problem on a Hamilton 243 and discovered that a spinet length jack spring had been installed on that particular note rather than the longer spring that belongs there.  The spring was not broken, just way too short.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=768465315-05052006></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=768465315-05052006>John Fortiner</SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=768465315-05052006>Billings, MT.</SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> KeyKat88@aol.com [mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:36 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Jack popped out<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Greetings, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>        I had a customer call about a key that would not play. When I got there and looked, at it the jack had flipped out from under the butt and was 'stuck' I simply lifted the hammer and pushed the jack back under. Then I asked if she was doing some loud hefty playing, as in Beethoven when it happened, and she said "Yes!...That's exactly what I was playing, Beethoven!".</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>       My question is should this even happen at all? The key was regulated ok, no excessive space between jack and butt on a normal blow.  I have seen pianos that were moved and tilted in such a way that the jacks popped foreward, but very few <EM>while pla</EM>y<EM>ing</EM> that this happened. It is a Baldwin/Hamilton console from the 60's 70's era; a nice work horse of a piano.   </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia Gottshall</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV></BODY></HTML>