Kimball grand 580P sustain lever dowel

[Ronald R Shiflet]

Patrick,
	Call up Roger Weisensteiner at Kimball and ask him.  He's pretty
much on top of things and if you're overlooking something, he'll be able
to help you out.
	The last time I called Roger, he said that they are no longer
making pianos but that they are still in business and that he still
works for them.

Ron Shiflet


On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:42:54 -0500 (EST) JPDraine@aol.com writes:
>I have just returned from servicing a one and a half year old Kimball
>Viennese Edition 580P grand.
>When I noticed that the sutain pedal had alot of lost motion and
>didn't lift
>the dampers sufficiently, I turned the nut on the pedal rod up -- and
>up --
>and up, until I finally had removed the lost motion, but the dampers
>still
>did not have sufficient clearance  above the strings.  I had turned
>the nut
>up about a 3/4" or more.
>Finally I got under the piano again, to see if the pitman dowel was
>somehow
>sliding around instead of moving vertically.
>I was suprised to see that the pitman dowel was very short ( barely
>extending
>below the keybed), and attached to a spring which substituted for what
>should
>have been the bottom half of the dowel.
>Have the rest of you had the misfortune to find this in other
>Kimballs?
>I plan to retrofit a normal pitman dowel in the future.
>Other than this, and that jack positions and repitition lever heights
>desperately need regulating, it's not a bad piano, given that the
>company was
>shutting down production at the time it was made.
>Patrick Draine RPT
>Billerica, MA
>