>Hi Everyone, > >I just got an action that I've never seen before and I have a question about >it. Hopefully some one out there has run in to this. It's a 50 year old >chickering Are you sure it's only 50 years old? This sounds like an older Boston Chickering; a 1950 Chickering would have been made in the Aeolian E. Rochester factory (I think), and I believe the action design would have been "homogenized" by then. > and the key sticks are not on one plane from front to back. It >dips down behind the balance rail pin so consequently there is no access to >the capstan. There is access from the rear of the action but still no room >to turn them as the back check wires are in the way. How in the world does >one adjust a hammer line with this sucker? > I think Chris Lovgren once mentioned that by putting a couple bends in a darning needle she could get at them. I'd suggest pulling the stack, cranking them each up a turn (or whatever), reinstall the stack, mark keys with chalk as to how many more turns necessary for each, repeat procedure, etc. Then bill the customer appropriately; it's not your fault it was built that way! Patrick
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