<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>Bruce,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The problem is that there is too much weight in the front of the keys f= or the weight of the action and spring tension combined to push the key back in= to place no matter how much lost motion I take out of it (I removed all I shoul= d have needed to and then some).  This is not a garden variety regulation= problem, unfortunately.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/22/05 9:13:14 PM Pacific Standard Time, justpianos@our.net.au writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi,<BR>Missed the first part of this message, so this may be irrelavent, but assume <BR>this is an upright.<BR>Hence hammers should not= be of the rail at all, and jacks should not have to <BR>force themselves unde= r hammer butts as a gap should exist for this. Even in a <BR>grand the jack doesn't support the hammer roller, so regulation is at fault.<BR>Bruce Browning - The Piano Tuner<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Piannaman@aol.com said:<BR><BR>> Some pianos should just never be made....<BR>>  <BR>> I think these are made in the Chinese Young Chang plant.  Th= ey look  <BR>> suspiciously like those little 107 jobbers that break = jack springs from <BR>time to  time.<BR>>  <BR>> First ("free")= tuning presented a plethora of problems(Am I almost as  <BR>> allitertive as Alan:-).  The hammers were a good half inch off the rail,  <BR>keys were <BR>> tight, yada, yada, yada....<BR>>&nbs= p; <BR>> The REAL problem was that the keyboard is so poorly weighted that= there  is <BR>> so much downweight in the black keys at either end= of the  keyboard that <BR>the <BR>> action weight and springs can't h= oist them back into  position, with damper <BR>> pedal on or off.<BR>>  <BR>> I didn't take readings, but I could feel huge weight differences from  one <BR>> key to the next.  After everything was regulated as well as  possible, keys <BR>> eased, keypins lubed, the jacks still could not force their  way back under <BR>the <BR>> butts, despite a healthy dose of teflon powder...<BR>>  <BR>> I stretched the jack springs to increase tension, though if  I had time I'd <BR>> have replaced them with stronger ones.  This seemed to get  the thing to <BR>> function.<BR>>  <BR>> Short of pulling leads out of the fronts = of the keys, any other ideas  <BR>> helping this action?<BR>>&nbsp= ; <BR><BR>> <BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>