<!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 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>This piano has been bugging me for a long time.  Perhaps some of y= ou remember it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The problems were:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Excessive keydip, yet not enough aftertouch!</DIV> <DIV>Bobbling hammers throughout the piano, except for the high treble</DIV> <DIV>Spongy feel, as if the felt punchings were really spongy, yet the keys = were not even contacting the punchings.</DIV> <DIV>Key/action movement felt blocked about halfway through keystroke.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Checked key height, seemed excessive at around 65mm, but in the end it checked out</DIV> <DIV>okay</DIV> <DIV>Key dip was okay.</DIV> <DIV>Clearance in all possible affecting rails(damper stop, sticker, and jac= k stop rails)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Clue:  This problem is probably unique to this particular type of piano.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Answers later....should be easy for some of you more experienced Americ= an techs to figure out.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<U><BR><A href="http://www.dstahlpiano.net/">http://dstahlpiano.net/</A></U></FONT><= /DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>