<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-= 1"> <META content="IncrediMail 1.0" name=GENERATOR>  </HEAD> <BODY style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0p= x 10px 10px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" text=#00005= b bgColor=#eff3f7 background=cid:C6F9B4AB-8B35-11D7-B139-00C0F04DBCA2= scroll=yes SIGCOLOR="0" X-ADF="0" X-AD="C3C52140-4147-11D4-BA3D-= 0050DAC68030" X-APF="1" X-AP="6486DDE0-3EFD-11D4-BA3D-0050DAC68030" X= -ANF="0" X-AN="6486DDE0-3EFD-11D4-BA3D-0050DAC68030" X-ASHF="1" X-A= SH="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-ASNF="0" X-ASN="ANIM3D0= 0-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-FVER="2.0" X-FID="BA285063-5BCE-11D4= -AF8D-0050DAC67E11" X-FIT="Letter" X-FCOL="Elegant Paper" X-FCAT="E= legant Paper" X-FDIS="Rice Fields" ORGYPOS="0"> <TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100= %" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD id=INCREDITEXTREGION style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; CURSOR: auto; FONT-F= AMILY: Arial" vAlign=top width="100%"> <DIV>Norm,</DIV> <DIV>Maybe check to see if the spoons are bent a little too far to the le= ft and barely touching a neighbor lever...?? </DIV> <DIV>Larry Trischetta<BR> </DIV> <DIV id=IncrediOriginalMessage><I>-------Original Message-------</I></D= IV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=receivestrings> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A href="m= ailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Friday, May = 16, 2003 23:38:33</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mai= lto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: A New= Trouble</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV>Hi Larry,<BR>Your comments are not very far off because = these damper levers do have spoons which the keys operate. The spoons in = the area of failure have a bend to the left and I believe that somehow th= is is binding the key occasionally. I mentioned using the pedal but you c= an release the key by lifting or pushing the damper by hand. Since the ow= ner does not play, it is not very urgent to get back and fix this trouble= but I sure would like to find it. You do not often have a true intermitt= ent trouble in a piano but I would call this one intermittent.<BR><BR>Nor= m Barrett <BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Larry P. Trischetta= " <<A href="mailto:ltpianoman@adelphia.net">ltpianoman@adelphia.net<= /A>><BR>To: <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org= </A>><BR>Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 5:47 PM<BR>Subject: Re: A New Trou= ble<BR><BR><BR>Hi Norm,<BR>Heres a little thought that might help... If t= he damper lever is moved away<BR>from the spoon when the hammer is in che= ck (whether by hand or with the lift<BR>rod) it has no effect on anything= else in the action (unless it's hitting a<BR>neighboring damper) and cou= ld never affect the whippen or anything connected<BR>to the whippen unles= s it actually held the spoon in some manner like a burr<BR>in the spoon c= atching (holding) the lever felt just enough to prevent the<BR>hammer to = drop... but I think that the force holding the spoon to the lever<BR>has = to be greater than the downward force of the hammer and whippen. The<BR>b= urr in the spoon has to be holding the felt pretty good to counter the<BR= >hammer & whippen falling... maybe it's a VERY small nick in the spoo= n but<BR>enough to catch the felt 1 out of 50 times. I'd try polishing th= e spoon and<BR>treating the lever felt and see what happens after 51 time= s. <BR><BR>Larry Trischetta, Pocono NE Chapter<BR><BR>pianotech list info= : <A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.pt= g.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A><BR>..<BR><BR>_______________________= ________________________<BR>pianotech list info: <A href="http://www.pt= g.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech">http://www.ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/pia= notech</A><BR>. </TD></TR> <TR> <TD id=INCREDIFOOTER width="100%"> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"></TD> <TD id=INCREDISOUND vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD> <TD id=INCREDIANIM vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></T= ABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN id=IncrediStamp><SPAN dir=ltr><F= ONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>______________________= ______________________________<BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><= A href="http://www.incredimail.com/redir.asp?ad_id=309&lang=9">= <IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:C6F9B4AA-8B35-11D7-B139-00C0F04DBCA2"= align=baseline border=0></A>  <I>IncrediMail</I> - <B>Email has= finally evolved</B> - </FONT><A href="http://www.incredimail.com/redir= .asp?ad_id=309&lang=9"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>= <B><U>Click Here</U></B></FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></BODY></HTML>