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="0">Julia,
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<BR>Now that I am picturing it correctly--hard to do late at night...:-)--I =
think Isaac is undoubtedly right. I've had similar occurences in piano=
s that are poorly regulated where the jack can't get back under the butt, so=
that's worth checking, too. My money says it's the pinning, though. &=
nbsp;Now's a good time to get a set of reamers if you don't already have one=
. Sounds like you're going to need it.
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<BR>Dave Stahl
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<BR>In a message dated 11/22/04 11:20:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, irs.piano=
s@earthlink.net writes:
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<BR>loss of power,poor repetition means jack problem..pinning is crutial! ja=
ck is not returining back..let me know about the results! good night! isaac =
centerpinsky
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<BR><B>Sent:</B> 11/22/04 10:50:59 PM
<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: jack slides out before delivering power
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="0">In a message dated 11/22/04 10:43:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, irs.pi=
anos@earthlink.net writes:
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bsp; Working on a Hamilton built by Baldwin studio upright today,=
I noticed that on a reallly soft blow to the key, the jack wants to s=
lip forward almost to the back of the catch's shank, instead of delivering t=
he kick to the base of the hammer butt.
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r complained that, on a soft blow the key wouldn't play and would sort of ja=
m. Looking at this situation I saw that the jack would sometimes just slip o=
ut too much forward and not deliver its power. What would cause this? Could =
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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><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACK=
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