Back in the days when I first started doing service calls, I went to tune an upright piano and discovered the touch was way too loose. It didn't dawn on me that the reason the lady called me in the first place, was that her grandchildren had been "horsing around" the piano, and somehow, it didn't seem right after their visit. Since there was so much lost motion, I took the keys out of the piano to adjust the capstans. After much hard work, I finally had the touch where I wanted it. THEN, I noticed the hammer rail was about a half inch forward of where it should have been! Turned out the grandkids had been playing with the pedals, and the soft pedal dowel pin was sitting NEXT to the hole in the trap lever, not thru it! Taught me to check the pedals FIRST before doing any action adjustments! Carol Beigel, RPT Greenbelt, Maryland
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