<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Climbing Mt. Everett: A puzzler</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>P { MARGIN: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>Alan,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>    My first thought is a shifted keybed ,but if so I would suspect the damper timing to be off and you made no mention .</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>    Possible broken action bracket (s)or split action rail?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>I work on a ton of these and although I consider changing vocations each time I have not seen the symptoms you describe .</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>    </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>Tom Driscoll</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianotuner@embarqmail.com href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:36 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Climbing Mt. Everett: A puzzler</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Piano: 70's Everett console in nice overall condition. One owner. Tuned, over the years, but never any other work done or recommended by the tuners<BR><BR>Problem: Everything wacky. Feels, overall, just lousy when you play. Can't play softly without having notes drop out (not sound), keys feel like they are bottoming out early, many keys bobble, no power. Well, no wonder, notes aren't even letting off, jacks push the hammers to about 1/4" from strings then the key bottoms. Dip, 3/8" or a sixteenth less, very uneven. There were several "sticking" and slow keys that easing at the front rail fixed, but this wasn't the real issue at hand.<BR><BR>Puzzler: This is a great thinking exercise for anyone interested in upright regulation. What would you look for? What problem(s) do you suspect?<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>