Hi David Cute puzzle to be sure. You gotta wonder about the cloth being glued on and not be allowed to dry. Musta been a trainee at the factory or somthing :) Still.... high class factory. Never ceases to amaze me all the little things that can go wrong... even in a well made instrument. sts..ok bout the prize :) I didnt really hit it exactly on the head, Joe was just behind me, and besides... its the first puzzler of the year. That carries an award in itself :) Ok... whose up next ? Cheers RicB David Ilvedson wrote: Whenever someone else does the puzzler, I say the same thing....when we diagnose something it's never instantaneous but trial and error....search, moving things etc. something you can't do with the puzzler...but, that being said, I think you've got it. I removed the pedals brought down the sustain pedal lever (held up by a thin leather piece, attached to the tray with a screw) and found the pitman/pushrod's (haven't heard that one before) cloth on each end was off center and flapping with loose glue underneath. I suspect the cloth was glued on and immediately put in the piano still wet. A few pedal movements mis-aligned the cloth....I removed them and cleaned off dried glue, applied glue and let dry while I worked on their other grand. Sorry, no prize. Spent too much this Christmas...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California
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