<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sticker pin guide holes too tight, or pins bent. --Tom Gorley<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mar 21, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Dave Swartz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">My guess it was a Darth Vader figurine...using the force, wedged under the keys. LOL....Ok, I'm thinking this through in my mind's eye :)<br><br>Dave Swartz<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:09 PM, John Formsma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com">formsma@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">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" target="_blank">PAULREVENKOJONES@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Balance rail pins too far to the rear, button binding on keystroke.</div>
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<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>
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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>
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