<!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 6.00.2900.2627" 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> <DIV>In a message dated 9/8/2005 5:24:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, jonnyv@chartermi.net 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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help!?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I have a customer with a young chan= g upright,...her last tuner said it has expanding action brackets. What is t= his Phenomena and what do we do about it?...How big of a job is this?</FONT></= DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Any Advice anyone?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jonnyv@chartermi.net</FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Jonny,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've not heard anyone complain of this issue in an upright, though I'm = sure it exists.  I've replaced the action brackets in a grand piano.&nb= sp; It takes some time, but it is a pretty straightforward procedure.  I th= ink I spent around 6 hours on the whole thing replacing the brackets and re-regulating the action.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is the piano going way out of regulation?  Is the action hard to remove?  There should be some sure signs if the brackets are growing.</= DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>