Short capstans resolved

[Tvak@AOL.COM]

Thanks to all who jumped in with suggestions on solving the lost motion 
problem on my Cable piano.  I spent 30 minutes with the piano yesterday, and 
with Richard Brekne's thought in my mind:

<<either the action is sitting too high over the keys, or the back of the 
keys are sitting too low under the action.>>

I was able to eliminate the possibility that the action was sitting too high 
over the keys because the hammers were at the proper strike point, and it fit 
just fine on the action bolts, therefore, the back of the keys must be 
sitting too low under the action.  An easily reversible solution was given by 
Ron Nossman:

<<shim up the key frame back rail about 3mm, and the center
about 1.5mm>>

So I stuck some sandpaper under the back rail and balance rail, and voile!  
Problem solved in 10 minutes.  

I am convinced that the damage to the leg altered the height of the keybed 
creating the problem.  The piano came to me with the leg loose and with a 
hammer blow distance of 3 inches.  Somebody had to remove the felt blocks 
under the hammer rail to create that outrageous hammer blow distance.  I 
think this was the previous tech's solution to a sagging keybed: increase the 
hammer blow distance to compensate for the lost motion resultant from the 
keybed being lower.  Even after the leg was repaired, the resultant height of 
the keybed must be lower than it was originally out of the factory, because 
when I set the proper hammer blow distance, this odyssey began.  

True, I haven't put the fallboard or "whatchamacallit" in the front of the 
keys to see how the clearance is, but at this point, those things can be 
shimmed or altered to accomodate the keys, because I don't see another 
solution to this...

Thanks again to all who contributed to the process: Jon Page, Joe Goss, Terry 
Farrell, Tommy Black, Greg Newell, Newton Hunt, Joe Garrett, and of course, 
Ron Nossman and Richard Brekne.  What a wonderful resource this list is; and 
of course, the list being nothing more than a conduit to all of you, what a 
wonderful caring bunch of knowledgeable people you are.  (...couldn't find a 
better way to say that, but I hope the message gets through...)

Thanks
Tom Sivak