yamaha

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Les,
           Just pulling on the springs with a pair of needle nose pliers
will uncoil the spring and pull most of the glue with it. The supply houses
sell a reamer for cleaning out these grooves, simple to use, and the job
will turn out perfect.
Roger 


At 06:09 PM 06/08/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Is Steve Pearson still with Yamaha?     I sent a message to him at
>Yamaha.com, and it came back as undeliverable?
>
>So, I'll pose my question here.
>
>Yesterday, opening a 3-year old Yamaha P22, I discovered someone had
>"spilled" something in the piano. Wound strings had large sections of
>green on them, and regular strings, lots of rust.
>
>Strange thing is that several jack springs were broken, the broken ends
>having turned black, I suppose, from corrosion.
>
>I suggested to the school district they might want to replace the whole
>set of springs, since whatever it was had been spilled over the entire
>set of strings, and I'd be concerned about other springs breaking.  This
>poor thing will have to be restrung one of these days. Pretty sad.  I did
>have the smarts to get the band director and show him what was going on.
>
>	The springs seem to be brass.  Replace them with Yamaha springs, I
>suspect. But they're glued in, and I wonder how one gets the glue to
>release the old ones.
>
>Any advice?
>
>Thanks
>
>les bartlett
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Roger Jolly
Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre
Saskatoon and Regina
Saskatchewan, Canada.
306-665-0213
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