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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You won’t even know if it’s the key until you look at it. Just because the customer says “a key is sticking” doesn’t mean that it is the key…. It could be the front of the key sticking on the key slip too. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hammer doesn’t strike the string? Probably not. Broken hammer? Flange pin out of place causing a wobbling hammer? Something interfering with the key, under the key, pencil inside of the action…………… And the list goes on… </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marshall Gisondi<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 02, 2011 9:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [pianotech] other piano concerns questions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Everyone,</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks everyone for the ideas William, John Joe, Tom and anyone I mssed. I sure appreciate your helpful insight. In fact I save these e-mails for reference. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br> <br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I also wanted to know what you guys do to ease a key on a grand without having to take the stack off, if there is a possible way of doing that. I have a customer who tells me that a "D"is sticking. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br> <br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Also I'm going to visit a grand on Wednesday where a hammer doesn't strike the string, string spacing? hammer spacing l ine of travel of hammer? I won't know until I get there, but am I on the right track with this one? thanks</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marshall</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><br><br></span><b><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><b><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Marshall's Piano Service</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><em><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>pianotune05@hotmail.com</span></b></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><b><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>215-510-9400</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><em><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.phillytuner.com/" target="_blank">www.phillytuner.com</a> </span></b></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span><b><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind <a href="http://www.pianotuningschool.org/" target="_blank">www.pianotuningschool.org</a> Vancouver, WA<br><br><br><br></span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>