This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I had a similar thing happen once. Only to discover after turning all those capstan screws that the action simply wasn't seated properly! :-) Jonathan Finger RPT -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Piannaman@aol.com Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:17 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Interesting Problems in a Seiler upright Today I went out to service a Seiler model 131(top of the line with magnetically assisted action) that is around 3 years old. The owner complained of dampers not working. When I arrived at his home, I found that the piano was so far out of regulation that I felt obliged to look for structural damage in the instrument. I have never seen a piano so far out of whack. There was no cracked plate, no warped keybed(it has a metal frame under the keyboard), nothing out of place, no signs of anything broken. The hammers were between 1/4 and 1/2 inch off the rail, and most of them blocked against the strings when played with a moderate to hard blow. I thought of trying to raise the action bracket bolts(the ones they rest on on the keybed) to raise the entire action up a small amount, but they were as high as they could go without bending the nose bolts upward. I figured it was a humidity problem that had caused some swelling. That's a helluva a lot of swelling, though. I ended up having to turn the capstans down more than one complete turn, then re-regulate the let-off and the back checks. It came out fine, but I am wondering why this happened. According to the lady of the house, it went from good to unplayable in about a month. It was almost as if someone had given a toddler some tools and told him to go play with the action. Anybody ever seen anything like this in a really high quality instrument? Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/06/dd/24/cf/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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