<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 11" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C69C93.743F9F50" rel=File-List> <STYLE>  </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="tab-interval: .5in" vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV> <DIV>Had one exactly as you describe. Turned out the movers had tilted this little console onto one side (end) and packed it in the truck thataway. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The keys had lifted off the rail pins enough to get all wedged and jumbled together. All I had to do was remove a few to make some working room and reposition each key on the proper pins.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As I'm writing this I'm thinking 'why didn't the fallboard keep the keys in place?' I can't remember why they were able to lift that way, but they did.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=doepkeb@comcast.net href="mailto:doepkeb@comcast.net">Brian Doepke</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 06/30/2006 9:20:42 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> One OT subject and One "on topic"</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV class=Section1> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I had to laugh out loud when I read the last names of the first 2 tunings today. <SPAN class=GramE>( I</SPAN> just list the customers last names)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>My first 2 clients last names today were <SPAN class=GramE>( I</SPAN> am not kidding)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Brake, Wind.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ok, more seriously.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>I received a call from a woman who said that 70% of the keys of her grandmothers recently moved upright piano were already down…in the position achieved after a normal key stroke…and would not work.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>she</SPAN> said “upright” …but that could be anything from a spinet to an old, tall upright. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who knows!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Anyway, I have dealt with jammed keys in a recently moved grand, but not in a vertical.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does anyone have any ideas on what this might be?? (naturally I told her that I needed to actually <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">see </SPAN></B>the piano and really could not even guess on what was causing the situation, or even how much it would cost to get them working again)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Jester size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Jester; mso-no-proof: yes">Brian P. 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