[CAUT] CAF

Susan Kline skline at peak.org
Mon Aug 17 12:11:03 MDT 2009


At 06:41 AM 8/17/2009, you wrote:
>Susan,
>What it sounds like you have is Pre-84 shanks and Hamburg 
>wippens.  They don't work together very well.
>Jeff

Yes, probably that was it. Luckily I was not the one who did the 
rebuild ... and I got it to work in the end, by the repinning and 
various other tweaks. It's now a second piano in a teaching studio, 
instead of the main one.

Susan

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:skline at peak.org>Susan Kline
>To: <mailto:caut at ptg.org>caut at ptg.org
>Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] CAF
>
>This was an ex-teflon piano with some geometry problems. I had to 
>tear some felt off the window cushions because some of the jacks 
>were pressing into them. I got the jacks free but the note jamming 
>problem was unchanged.
>
>In the end, I realized that the hammer tails were getting caught on 
>the way up by the backchecks after the fast initial note and before 
>the hard-played second one.


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