Associates only puzzler answer

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Very good. I had the same thing happen to me Wed. Removed the upstop rail to
ease a key, then screwed the center prop nut down too low when I put it
back. Then I looked at the center area hammers and saw them floating in
mid-air. "No wonder some notes aren't working," says I, "look at how
out-of-wack the capstan heights are." Had to remove the upstop rail to get
my capstan tool under the wippens. Whoa, Magic. The hammers fell back on the
felt .... hmmmm. We DO learn (hopefully) from our mistakes, don't we!

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO


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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:16 PM
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Subject: Associates only puzzler answer



In a message dated 2/13/03 9:07:39 AM, Piannaman@aol.com writes:

<< Was the felt on the bottom of the upstop rail pushing down on the keys??
>>

That didn't take very long.  Not much of a puzzler, I guess.  Yep.  The
upstop rail was too low. Because there was so much lost motion, it didn't
have any impact on the piano when I first looked at it.  Some of the keys
must have been depressed but the lost motion compensated for the raised jack
and the keys were never depressed enough to be visible from the key side of
things: they looked level, before AND after.

My mistake was not paying much attention to things after I put the upstop
rail and the key cover back on.  I did play the piano, and as luck would
have
it I didn't experience any problems.  Had I looked at the hammers, though,
it
would have been obvious, because several were raised off the hammer rest
rail.

Next time...I'll look at things one last time before I hurry out the door.
Luckily for me, this client lives only 4 doors away from my house---the only
client I have that I can walk to their piano.

I admit to intentionally exaggerating the associate/RPT gap with tongue
firmly in cheek.  When I wrote:

<<no RPT would ever be so stupid as to find himself having to return to fix
a
problem he should have been aware of on the first visit...)

I thought it was clear that this was said with a chuckle in my voice.  (I
hate emoticons and refuse to use them, though one of these--->   ;)   might
have made that clearer.

On the opposite side of things, it certainly was not my intent to slight any
associates, many of whom could teach us all a thing or two.  Perhaps I
should
have titled it, "Newbies only puzzler."

Oh well, next time...

Tom S
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