Mystery #3

[Greg Newell]

On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 02:28:55 -0400 (EDT), PDtek@aol.com wrote:

>List;
>This one may be too easy but I'll give it a shot anyway. When I was first
>starting in this business I was servicing an old grand where the owner was
>complaining of sluggish keys.When she sat down and played, I could see that
>several keys were extremely slow coming back (her fingers were not resting on
>the keys). When I sat down and played these same keys, they were completely
>void of any friction whatsoever. I would play them slow, fast, easy, hard,
>sustain on, sustain off, no friction. The keys were not touching the slip and
>no keys were touching each other. She sat down, started playing again and
>there were the sluggish keys again. It drove me nuts for about an hour until
>I located and repaired the problem. What was it?
>
>Dave Bunch
>


Dave and list,

	My guess is that the lady was pressing her knee up against the ubnderside of 
the keybed.
					Greg Newell
Greg and Mary Ellen Newell
Greg's Piano Forte`
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
gnewell@en.com