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[Ronald R Shiflet]

An extra piece of front bushing cloth, shoved up into the mortise.  Not
always visible.

Ron




On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:56:48 -0800 (PST) ron_and_lorene@juno.com (Ronald
R Shiflet) writes:
>	I went out as promised to work on my customers brand new grand
>piano.  She complained that A below middle C sticks.  I tired and
>tried but couldn't make it stick.  I played slow, I played fast,
>soft...hard...nothing.  I even tuned the piano but noticed nothing.
>As I went to leave I told her that I couldn't find it.  Then she said
>that as soon as I left it would start sticking again.  I felt guilty
>so I looked again.  Then I felt a slight heaviness when I slowly
>pushed the key down.
>	I decided to find out if it was in the action or the keybed.
>The action had no apparent discrepancies.  I decided it was in the key
>so I tested to see if it was in the balance hole or the front mortise.
> I lifted up at the key and the balance hole felt fine so I pushed the
>key down slowly and then it felt fine.  I was really puzzled so I took
>the action stack off from the key frame.  What did I find?
>
>Ron Shiflet