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PM Pacific Standard Time, irs.pianos@earthlink.net writes:
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LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> &n=
bsp; Working on a Hamilton built by Baldwin studio up=
right today, I noticed that on a reallly soft blow to the key, the jac=
k wants to slip forward almost to the back of the catch's shank, instead of =
delivering the kick to the base of the hammer butt.
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;The customer complained that, on a soft blow the key wouldn't play and woul=
d sort of jam. Looking at this situation I saw that the jack would sometimes=
just slip out too much forward and not deliver its power. What would cause =
this? Could the keys not be levelled high enough?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000=
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<BR>Hi Julia,
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<BR>I'm sort of directionally confused here. Is forward towards the pi=
ano, or towards the player?
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<BR>Thanks,
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<BR>Dave Stahl</FONT></HTML>