<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hi David,<br>
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Today I hope to find out what the key height spec IS for this instrument (and what elevation the fallboard guide pins should be above the keybed).</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Not Japanese.</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Will check keys vis a vis keyslip, fallboard gap when closed. Shanks are just above rest cushions.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Alan Eder<br>
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From: David Ilvedson <ilvey@sbcglobal.net><br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 8:56 pm<br>
Subject: Re: fallboard vs. keytops<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Key height to spec at the extremes? Keys look correct to keyslip? i.e. key <br>
front looks like a square...key pins up into the key mortice a bit when key at <br>
rest? Is this a Japanese piano? if so not likely a manufacturing <br>
error...really does sound like a bedding problem. A quick look at the glides <br>
would show if they were turned down abnormally...Does the fallboard have a <br>
normal gap at the top when closed? How do the cheekblocks align with <br>
fallboard? Keys much higher than the cheekblocks? Check blow <br>
distance...shanks just above the rest felt...normalcy...<br>
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David Ilvedson, RPT<br>
Pacifica, CA 94044<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>
Received: 9/1/2008 8:21:32 PM<br>
Subject: Re: fallboard vs. keytops<br>
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> Hi Rex,<br>
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>Thanks for your input.? I had the action in and out and used the una corda <br>
pedal, so <br>
>it doesn't appear to be interference with overly long leg bolts in this <br>
particular case <br>
>(although that's a good one to be on the look-out for).? The fallboard pins <br>
COULD be <br>
>in the wrong place--hope to sort that out with the manufacturer tomorrow.? I'm <br>
not <br>
>sure what you mean by them being "installed upside down," though.? Could you <br>
>please clarify that?<br>
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>Thanks,<br>
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>Alan Eder<br>
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>-----Original Message-----<br>
>From: Rex Roseman <<a href="mailto:rosemanpiano@gmail.com">rosemanpiano@gmail.com</a>><br>
>To: 'Pianotech List' <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>
>Sent: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:35 pm<br>
>Subject: RE: fallboard vs. keytops<br>
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>Alan<br>
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>Does the action shift correctly? One of<br>
>the things I have seen working for a piano store is that the movers sometimes<br>
>do not put the leg/lyre bolts in the correct place. Some pianos have shorter <br>
bolts<br>
>for the front legs. If the long bolts are put in the front, it will cause the<br>
>action to be lifted on that end. Usually the complaint is the piano will not<br>
>play correctly in the treble, but someone may have lowered the hammer line not<br>
>realizing that the end of the keyframe was in the air; resting on the leg bolt<br>
>and not the keybed. This could cause the treble keys to be high enough to be <br>
>depressed<br>
>by the fallboard. The quick check for this is to try to shift the action. It<br>
>will not shift in this condition. (You will also have to back out the offending<br>
>bolt to get the action out.) The solution to this problem is to take out the<br>
>offending bolt and remove one bolt at a time from each of the other leg and<br>
>lyre positions and compare the length. (If you take a bolt out, check it and<br>
>replace if not shorter before you take out the next bolt you will not have to<br>
>worry about the piano legs or lyre falling off.)<br>
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>Course it could be that the pin is in the<br>
>wrong place or installed upside-down.<br>
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>Just a couple of obvious (and not so<br>
>obvious) ideas on things to check.<br>
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>Rex Roseman<br>
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