Here's a puzzler for you

[Michael Jorgensen]

Backcheck was rubbing against a case part?  You bent the backcheck so it didn't
catch anymore, but it would have been better to alter the appendage that was
catching the backcheck.
-Mike Jorgensen

Wallace Scherer wrote:

> A week after I had tuned a Kimball console, the customer told me one of
> the keys was sticking. When I arrived, she played the key a few times,
> and then it stuck down, about half way. The key itself felt free, but the
> hammer would not strike the string.
>
> When I opened up the piano, the key was not sticking, nor could I get it
> to stick again. But upon careful observation of the action, I figured out
> why it was probably sticking.
>
> I made an adjustment using only my fingers, then closed up the piano,
> mostly satisfied the problem would not reoccur.
>
> However as I drove away, I thought of something else I could have done
> INSTEAD that probably would have been better, again using only my fingers.
> would have been better?
>
> Wally Scherer
> Lake Worth, Florida
>
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