<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C772CE.584C8DF0"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="cid:editdata.mso@01C772CE.584C8DF0"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> I remembered another thing you might look for.  If the letoff rail is set too close to action rail, the jack will get wedged between the letoff rail and the hammer butt leather.  Loosen the screws on the letoff rail and move it away from the  butts just a little.  Until I learned that trick, I did a lot of head scratching.  Hope it helps.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Paul McCloud<o:p></o:p> <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of piannaman@aol.com Sent: <st1:date Month="3" Day="29" Year="2007">Thursday, March 29, 2007</st1:date> <st1:time Hour="20" Minute="30">8:30 PM</st1:time> To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: <st1:place>Baldwin</st1:place> spinet "lost motion" issue twice in one week.... <o:p> </o:p> <div> ...or "why I love spinet pianos!"<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> First piano was in a multimillion dollar home.  A little <st1:place>Baldwin</st1:place> spinet, this one with inverted sticker type action.  The lady had purchased it for 400$ without any kind of consultation, and her husband and five if his friends had toted it up the stairs and into their castle.  I was tuning away, and found one note that wouldn't regulate.  Everything was there, but the lost motion ate up about a quarter inch of keydip.  I looked for things that might be wedged in there, but I could find nothing.  And I didn't have time to pull the action, having already spent most of the appointment pitch raising the pso and vacuuming out the various places where who-knows-what may have dwelt.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Second piano, a just-delivered rental piano, had the same symptoms--again on only one note--but it was one of the newer type <st1:place>Baldwins</st1:place> with the rubber grommets hooked into the lifter fork, and the plastic nut on top.  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> I checked linkage as much as I could, but could find nothing wedged anywhere on either instrument, though on the second one the connecter to the elbow was sitting up too high.  Very frustrating.  I explained to the owner and renter that this is one big reason why spinets in general should be avoided.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Anybody experienced this?  Thoughts on why this might occur?  I'm convinced that there is something  wedged inside that I can't see or get to without yanking the action, but any suggestions are more than welcome!<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Dave Stahl, RPT but humbled by <st1:place>Baldwins</st1:place> again Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <a href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com" target="_blank">AOL.com</a>.<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>