List - Recently someone - I forget who - puzzled over a spring that had somehow come loose from its cord on a grand wippen flange. I ran into this situation on a Samick grand yesterday. Three springs were flopping freely. The cord had come unglued on one (CA did the trick) but on the other two, the glue was intact. I noticed that the other two cords were shorter than those around them, and as I was hooking the springs back, I noticed a broken strand extending from the point of the cord loop. My theory is that during speedy assembly the tip of the spring caught one fiber rather than seating properly in the loop, and that one fiber eventually broke. Fixing these, however, did not rectify the problem the action was out for - a knock when a few keys returned. As it turned out, backchecks were colliding with the sostenuto rail. Since the hammers were checking properly and the sostenuto needed no adjustment (and I was not about to mess with that), I was able to ease the situation by backing out the screw in the bass (under-?) dog so that the action did not go in quite so far. I'm for the underdogs, especially those being flamed. But that's another matter. Bill Maxim, RPT Greer, SC
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