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[Ryan, Philip]

A paperclip, bug or object under the A key.

Greg Newell wrote:
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> Ronald R Shiflet wrote:
> >
> >         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
>
> Glue glob in the mortise?
>                       Greg
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