<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" = http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 = Transitional//EN"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>I'd be real suspicious of the pinblock pulling away = from the back.  Did this piano have an exposed pinblock, or was it covered = with a moisture barrier.  What you describe below sounds a lot like a = plate and pinblock that are bowing forward.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Be careful,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brian Henselman, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Austin, TX</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="mailto:musicmasters@att.net">musicmasters@att.net</A></FONT></DIV= > <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original = Message-----</B><BR><B>From: </B>Pat Neely <<A = href="mailto:pneely@thegrid.net">pneely@thegrid.net</A>><BR><B>To: = </B><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> <<A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR><B>Date: </B>Wednesday, November 03, 1999 8:19 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>74-99 = cents flat<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT size=2> Hi list </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>   Three times I have come upon pianos = that would keep dropping. I hope I can explain this clearly, I'd raise it above = where it needed to be  for example  if it was 75 cents flat and I = raised it over maybe 20 cent next tme it would be 40 cents flat and it would = take 4 or 5 time going over it to make it stay and the last two octaves  = would drop off the where their not any lights at all {SAT] 3 -4 times and the = pins were not too tight nor that loose, It did have miner damage to the corner = bottom of the case and some to the bottom on the back but no thing I could see = inside and it finally held  Pat  assoc.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>