---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 7:14 PM -0400 5/31/01, Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote: >The fact that there is a squeak indicates there may be a scrubbing >movement happening which means incorrect alignment. How does the action >feel? Does it feel unusually heavy or seem to have some unusual feeling >resistance in it? I know the feeling you describe, I have an 1883 Steinway upright that was brutal to play until I got the capstans lined up correctly, that was 15 years ago and a lesson I've never forgotton. This action shows none of those signs. I feel that it is a slight roughness on the plastic surface of the capstans and the factory black lubrication that is causing the noise. At 6:42 PM -0700 5/31/01, Tom Driscoll wrote: >You might try rubbing the capstans with a block of hammer felt >while still in the piano,followed by a shot of mclube on the >capstans . If it comes back I'll give Toms method a shot before removing the keys to the buffing wheel. Thanks to both for your replies. -- --Dave ----------------------------- Dave Doremus Algiers Piano Works Tuning and Restoration of Modern and Historical Stringed Keyboard Instruments New Orleans algiers_piano@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/51/78/12/56/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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