<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Dean May <<a href="mailto:deanmay@pianorebuilders.com">deanmay@pianorebuilders.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"> <div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; ">Some of those Wurlitzers can be very problematic with sluggish actions. They just seem overly susceptible to the slightest imbalance of friction. I've found that often the problem is the whippen center.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ditto.  You have to check all the centers.  But the wippens are certainly troublesome.  It's $$$.00 if you can sell the job.</div><div> <br></div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"><div><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; "></span></p> <p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Speaking of Wurly's, I've noticed a certain era of them that seem to develop loose pins.  They have exposed pin blocks on the top which show an apparently good quality multi-lam block. <snip>. While they are still holding they aren't as tight as I'd like them to be. I'm wondering if the blocks were made of some inferior wood to only make it look like a good block.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That'd be my guess.  I've noticed the same thing.</div></div><br>-- <br>JF<br>