Liftrod Woes

[Susan Kline]

Clyde, it seems to me that since it was probably broken for
many years, or possibly even before it was broken was crooked,
that someone may have adjusted the treble damper levers to
make up for the bad alignment. So, when the dampers are sitting
in the air on the bench, they look straight, but they are not
straight with the strings.

Of course, you can take the time to bend them individually to
where they will lift evenly, and then bend the spoons, too. It
would work that way -- but what a fuss!

Or, you can take the rod back out and bend the hangers, put it
in and try it, take it out and adjust it, put it in ---- etc.
but what a fuss!

Do tell us what you decide to do ...

Susan

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Clyde writes:

>What upsets me is that I can put it back into the action, and on the
>bench it works really nice.  All the dampers lift at the same time.  But
>when I put it in the piano, the treble dampers lift sooner than the
>bass, not as badly as before the repair, but certainly not all at the
>same time.  If it makes any difference, this was one of those 2-piece
>liftrods.  I suspect the hook was broken for many years.
>
>I repaired one of these once before and got the same results.  What am I
>doing wrong?
>
>Regards,
>Clyde