<!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 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hummm ...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Today I had a older church Steinway that a few years back had some hammer reshaping and regulation work by a legitimate tech, but now the upper hammers (oct. 4 and upper have about 20 hammers that do not go into check but rather strike the string and then drop very slightly but even under a hard blow will not lower anymore than perhaps 15mm (not enough to check).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I measured the hammer blow distance seemed correct, the let-off and drop seemed not bad and the general keydip across everything seemed also correct. I did not have time to get too involved but want to come back later to resolve this issue. Maybe someone else has seen this happen????? I'm hoping there is a simple solution to what may have happened.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is this possibly due to:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(a) Repetition Springs to strong on those notes (maybe after filing the hammers)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(b) gunk maybe preventing repetition spring from proper flexing in the groove</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(c)keydip or bedding screws may have changed after time</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(d) the whole regulation maybe completely off even though the measurements seem not bad</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(e) all the above</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(f) tell the customer to donate this piano to charity and buy a new one!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess I can try to mal-adjust my model to see if I can get it to do this but I hope some one may know just what this is!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerry Arbeau</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>