<html><head><base href="x-msg://29/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Marshall, You can ease a balance rail key by removing the key upstop rail, and then lift the key 1/2 inch. Then use key easing pliers. But be sure that it's the upper part of the hole that needs the easing.<div><br></div><div>But, if you have a customer telling you that a key is sticking, that could mean that a damper is leaking . . . or a dozen other meanings. To some customers, if a note is doing anything unusual, they describe it as "sticking."<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 2, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Marshall Gisondi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="Arial">Hi Everyone,</font><br><font size="3" face="Arial">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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font size="3" face="Arial"></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font size="3" face="Arial"></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">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</font><br><font size="3" face="Arial">Marshall</font><br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician</span></span></font></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">Marshall's Piano Service</span></span></font></span><br><strong><em><font size="3" face="Garamond"><a href="mailto:pianotune05@hotmail.com">pianotune05@hotmail.com</a></font></em></strong><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">215-510-9400</span></span></font></span><br><strong><em><font size="3" face="Garamond"><a href="http://www.phillytuner.com/" target="_blank">www.phillytuner.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></em></strong><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.pianotuningschool.org/" target="_blank">www.pianotuningschool.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Vancouver, WA<br><br><br><br><br></span></span></font></span><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "></span></font></span></span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>