<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows= -1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER= -LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"><BR>That's just what I wa= s going to say...mice<BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, Californi= a<BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5p= x; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Alan Barnard" <TUNE4U@EARTHLINK.NET><BR>To: = Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 2/7/2006 5:26:22 PM<BR>Subje= ct: Answer to puzzler<BR><BR> <P> <DIV> <DIV align=left>Didn't get very many responses to this puzzler, but I= wil reveal the answer:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Conover upright, newish.</DIV> <DIV>Customer complained that the soft pedal didn't seem to work.</DIV>= <DIV>Found that the prop stick was not in the hole. Put it in the hole = and regulated it.</DIV> <DIV>Tuned the piano. Drove away.</DIV> <DIV>5 minutes later, I get a call on my cell: "Two notes don't work wh= en I press the soft pedal."</DIV> <DIV>Turn around, go back. Sure enough two notes (f3 and g3) don't= work unless you hit the keys quite hard.</DIV> <DIV>What was wrong?</DIV> <DIV>Hint (things that were NOT wrong): No hammer interference or any p= roblems with rubbing or interfering parts. No foreign objects. No keyst= ick problems. No loose screws. No flange problems. Nothing broken.</DIV= > <DIV>Hint: The fix took one tool and about 30 seconds (after about 3 mi= nutes of professional analysis and diagnosis, i.e., chin scratching, co= nfused wonderment, and blank staring).</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Answer: Letoff was so early (about 1/2 inch) that, with the rest r= ail lifted, there just wan't enough oomph in the key stroke to throw th= e hammer to the strings. I ended up adjusting letoff on most notes and = increased aftertouch on the whole piano by replacing the front rail fel= ts with thinner ones. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Why not just remove punchings?" you may ask. (Go ahead, ask, you = know you're dying to...) The reason was that many notes had no punching= s whatsoever under them, and many others had just one or two thin ones!= </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't think it was set up well at the factory and certainly not = in the store.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>