<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's strange that no one answered my question</FONT></div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: tnrwim <tnrwim@aol.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 6:54 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] upright expanding brackets<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_1_fcfe5aee-2d27-47b2-86c3-cfb56e4ca22f><FONT color=black size=2 face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <div>I just tuned and worked on a Weber upright, 109, serial number TOOO 14141. I don't know what year it was made, but I'm guessing it's about 30 years old. The first thing I noticed when I was tuning was that the checking distance is about 3/4" to 1 inch, which gave the piano a funny feeling. I then started looking around, and found that the LO was at least a 1/4". Another oddity was that the last octave was barely audible, not like other YC and Samicks I've tuned. Other dimensions seemed OK, like the damper timing, and the position of the capstan on the wippen cushion. </div> <div> </div> <div>Has anyone ever experienced YC upright actions behaving this way? Is there any history of YC upright brackets expanding? After all, wouldn't the foundry that made the grand brackets also make the upright brackets? If these brackets are expanded, would the effects be what I found on this piano? <br> </div> <div>Wim Blees RPT</div> <div>Hawaii<br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> </FONT></div> </div> </font>