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<DIV>Julia,</DIV>
<DIV>I don't know what a brentwood is, spinet, I think. If the balance pins are
showing 1/4" above the bushing, you can raise them with more felt or punching,
if you have room under the fall. Look also at the key slip, will you be able to
see under the key when you raise them up? Case parts will tell you a lot about
where to set key ht. Shimming the rail makes since too, but the exposed pin
makes me think the key should be higher through shimming. Might just have to
make an executive decision and go for it.</DIV>
<DIV>Fenton</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 15, 2008 12:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Brentwood piano has low low
keys</DIV>
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<DIV>Greetings,</DIV>
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Servicing a Brentwood (serial 72722) ( year?) piano (which
desparately needed a pitch raise and had some loose tuning pins), I
discovered that the keys are terribly low. There were about 1/8" worth of
punchings under the balance rail(!), and the keys are so low that the
jacks dont even come in contact with the let off buttons on a
keystroke. It's capstans are turned almost all the way up and the balance
rail pins stick up about 1/4" out of the key shoe! I could hardly believe that
this got out of the factory, let alone the dealer.</DIV>
<DIV> I suspect this animal may be a "wet piano". Are these pianos
notoroius for this? What to do? I think the answer is to shim up
the <EM><U>entire</U></EM> balance rail...what say anyone? I there anything
else I should check first?</DIV>
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<DIV>Julia Gottshall</DIV>
<DIV>Reading, PA </DIV><BR><BR><BR>
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