Foreign object of some kind? But that's pretty common. I've pulled all kinds of stuff out that was causing sluggishness. Pencils, playing cards, etc.<div><br></div><div>I'm assuming they were all sluggish from the same cause, right?</div> <div><br></div><div>Missing any key punchings? Probably also way too common.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div>John Formsma, RPT<br></div><div>Blue Mountain, MS</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:44 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PAULREVENKOJONES@aol.com">PAULREVENKOJONES@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"> <div>Balance rail pins too far to the rear, button binding on keystroke.</div> <div> </div> <div>P</div> <div> </div> <div><div class="im"> <div>In a message dated 3/21/2011 9:42:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:adarpub@midrivers.com" target="_blank">adarpub@midrivers.com</a> writes:</div> </div><blockquote style="border-left:blue 2px solid;padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px"><font style="background-color:transparent" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><div class="im">It's 34 years since I began servicing pianos, and today I saw yet another first. Let's see if you can guess what it was. The last six or seven bass keys were sluggish on an Acrosonic spinet. The keys were not tight on the balance or front rails, the action was totally free, and the key slip was not butting up against the keys. Why were the keys sluggish?<br><br>Arlie Rauch<br></div>Glendive, MT=</font></blockquote></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br><br> </div>