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[Richard Moody]

A mouse's calling card?   This can happen with pianos that have been a
warehouse. Debris can be knocked loose from shipment.  I have also seen
(once) a new piano with mis-placed front rail pins.  Also in the mortice
holes as David says too long a bushing, and also splinters.

R Moody

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> From: Ronald R Shiflet <ron_and_lorene@juno.com>
> To: Pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Next Quiz
> Date: Wednesday, January 29, 1997 10:56 AM
>
> 	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