Repair and rebuilding

Wallace F. Wilson wilson53@MARSHALL.EDU
Fri, 06 Jun 1997 22:30:29 -0400 (EDT)


>I'm on a Lester spinet and the action rattles something terrible. All the
hammer and >whippen flanges are loose. While preparing to pull the action I
notice all new plastic >elbows. Oh yes, the lady says, another tuner put
those on last year. He took the action >home and kept it for a month. This
guy stuffed the action back in without tightening >action screws. 

Very interesting -- since it is not even necessary to remove the action from
the spinet *at all* to replace the elbows!
Wally Wilson



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