<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 23-jan-2007, at 1:35, alan forsyth wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; ">I'm having to regulate the action of a circa 1890 Bechstein grand which has that confounded tied keyboard and rocker capstans. Normally i've avoided having to remove the action stack but this time I will have to as the keys are so higgldy piggldy. I have a special tool to adjust the screws on the rockers; a ratchet offset screwdriver. What I want to know is, is there a special tool for disconnecting the stickers from the capstans. They are those stickers that tie the undercarriage of the whippen to the rocker capstan using centrepins. The bottom end of the sticker just clips onto the capstan. However the stickers are recessed so far back under the action stack that it is almost impossible to disconnect them without breaking something because they are usually very tight and there is so little room under there to manoeuvre.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></STRONG> </DIV><DIV><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; ">Another sleepless night ahead.</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></STRONG> </DIV><DIV><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; ">AF</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hate those rocker capstans, and the only way to get them separated from the keys is to pull the whippen with one hand, and at he same time depress the key with the other hand.</DIV><DIV>That'll do this lousy job fast for you.</DIV><DIV>It is much better to install new whippens and hammers and buy the Renner bechstein kit so that you can continue with 'normal' capstans and 'normal' whippens.</DIV><DIV>Less aggravation, and maybe a little longer life?</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">friendly greetings</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">from</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">André Oorebeek</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Antoni van leeuwenhoekweg 15</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">1401 VW Bussum</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">the Netherlands</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">tel : 0031 35 6975840</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">tel : 0031 652388 008</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><A href="mailto:concertpianoservice@planet.nl">concertpianoservice@planet.nl</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">www.concertpianoservice.nl</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">where music is, </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">no harm can be</SPAN></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>