This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Normally the spring of the damper lever aids the key in returning to = rest position. If everything is working as it should, you shouldn't need = this extra help. If the sustain pedal is on, this "help" from the damper = spring is effectively disabled. That means that any extra friction = anywhere in the mechanism is going to show up as a sluggish key. It most = likely is the front rail bushing, but could be the balance rail, one of = the action centers or hammer spring out of place.=20 =20 And yes, jamming a screwdriver between keys while holding them down = (this makes the bushing fully engage the pin where the binding occurs) = and twisting back and forth is a quick and dirty method of easing front = rail bushing. Just don't tell anyone. ;-) =20 Dean =20 Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 =20 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On = Behalf Of Gholley237@cs.com Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 6:10 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Yamaha Colsole, Sharps checking on trill with sustain = pedaldepressed. =20 Hello List. Yamaha P22, Console, 270499, owner bought new from local = Mishawaka, IN., dealer three years ago. Dealer sent a "tooner" to tune 1st time, and owner call her back for 2nd = and 3rd tuning. On 3rd visit, the owner asked the "tooner" why the sharps would "stick = or not return when a fast trill was played, with the sustain pedal = depressed". "Tooner" told the owner that Yamaha Consoles had this = problem and said that it was probably the front pin bushing being too = tight. (The problem does not present itself when a trill is played and = the sustain pedal is NOT depressed). Anyway, the "tooner" took a thin steel blade, probabaly a machinist = rule, and jambed it down between the keys in the area of the front pins = and moved it back and forth saying that she was trying to free up the = space in the area of the pin bushings. I wonder if this "tooner" even knows where the pin bushings are located, = surely not on the side of the key stick. The "tooner" did not remove the key slip to look under the keys to see = if anything looked amiss. "Tooner" could not resolve the problem and = left. Will not return calls made to her. Owner has called the dealer = several times and the dealer will not return the calls to address the = warranty problem. The owner got my name from another satisfied customer of mine and called = me. I looked at the piano this afternoon to play it my self and experience = the problem first hand. Offending sharps are G#4, A#4, G#5, C#6, G#7. Does anyone have some knowledge to shed on this problem and what to look = for and in what sequence. What initially should I be looking for? Many regards to all. Gordon Holley Associate Member Goshen, IN Indiana Chap 467. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/50/2f/9a/7b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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