<HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> Roger,  Maybe just increasing the tension on the hammer return springs would do the trick? Or installing a new set of return springs with more tension? I think it would be a better solution than new wires and straps or replacing the instrument...just another thought. Sincerely, Greg Torres ROGERIO OLIVEIRA DA CUNHA wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Hello List. Today I went to solve a problem in a piano that it's owner said me that it was in trouble. I went there and could detect that few notes of the piano was good but a great number of them couldn't to function correctly. The owner of the piano told me that she lived four years on Texas and that bought the piano in Dallas. When I was inspecting the problem I was very surprised because there are no bridle  wires. I never saw a vertical piano without bridle straps! I inspected the wippens and saw that the holes to support the bridle wires was empty and clean. I haven't doubt that the never was a bride wire there. The model of the piano is one that the action is under the keyboard and the function of the wippens is correct; the function of the key is correct : if you press a key it pull the sticker, the sticker moves the wippens and when you release the key every parts come to the this place but the hammers this is the problem because they go to the strings and don't come back to the hammer rail. I think that the better thing to do is to install bridle wires and bridle satraps but I would like to read some technicians about this problem and I want know if is possible the KIMBALL to have made this piano without bridle straps.Rogerio Cunha - Rio de janeiro - IC Member of the PTG</BLOCKQUOTE>   </BODY> </HTML>