<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div>Forget my last guess.<br /> I think it's the sostenuto tabs engaging the rod on the way up . On a hard blow they power through. On a light blow they drag and the resistance is felt at the key.<br /><br />Tom Driscoll<br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px 0px;"></div><span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 07/16/11, <span>Mark Schecter<mark@schecterpiano.com></span> wrote:</span><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"><div>Side of knuckle dragging on next repetition lever? Caused by knuckle squishing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">(technical term) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">sideways combined with bad travelling on the adjacent wippen?</span></div><div><br />-- Mark Schecter<div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div><div><br />On Jul 16, 2011, at 1:09 AM, "Delwin D Fandrich" <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:del@fandrichpiano.com" target="_blank">del@fandrichpiano.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">The piano is a 1928 Chickering Model M, Scale 141 (small concert size). The problem is this:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">As the key is depressed slowly—<i>pianissimo</i>—for the first millimeter or so the key and hammer move smoothly. Then something starts binding, it feels like something in the action is dragging, holding the key and action back. After forcing the key down another three or four millimeters action becomes free and everything operates normally. On a medium to hard blow there is good power and the problem is hardly noticeable but at <i>pianissimo</i> the action will hardly play.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">What is the problem and what caused it?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">ddf</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Delwin D Fandrich</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#632423"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Piano Design & Fabrication</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#632423"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#632423">6939 Foothill Court SW, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Olympia, Washington 98512 USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">Phone  360.515.0119 — Cell  360.388.6525</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#632423"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423"><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:del@fandrichpiano.com" target="_blank"></a><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:del@fandrichpiano.com" target="_blank">del@fandrichpiano.com</a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423">— </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423"><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:ddfandrich@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:ddfandrich@gmail.com" target="_blank">ddfandrich@gmail.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></blockquote></div></div>