> This woman used the una corda so much that its use had caused the > hammers to become totally flat-to! >pped! >Terry Farrell I had one of these last week in a professor's studio at a college. An old Baldwin L. When I asked if there any problems besides tuning, she said the una corda didn't work right. The piano was too loud, she said, and they used the una corda all the time. But it didn't do much good. No kidding? The hammers were just like you described, except for the little full height sliver of felt standing about 3mm tall on the right edge. Someone had even gone to the trouble to pull the fallboard and stick a piece of pressure sensitive tape backed name board felt (nasty stuff) on the action stop block to space the action over. I pulled the felt, brushed down the flat top hammers, reassembled, tuned, and moved on. No fix here. Their "budget" allowed maintenance tuning of 7 pianos of 22 this semester. I tuned 6, and condemned one as hopeless, just like I'd condemned it the year before, and the year before that. Eventually, a time quickly approaching, they will run clear out of even marginally usable pianos. Most of them are right on the edge now. Sigh. Ron N
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