jack slides out before delivering power

[Piannaman@aol.com]

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In a message dated 11/22/04 10:43:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
irs.pianos@earthlink.net writes:


>           Working on a Hamilton built by Baldwin studio upright today, I 
> noticed that  on a reallly soft blow to the key, the jack wants to slip forward 
> almost to the back of the catch's shank, instead of delivering the kick to 
> the base of the hammer butt.
> 
>              The customer complained that, on a soft blow the key wouldn't 
> play and would sort of jam. Looking at this situation I saw that the jack 
> would sometimes just slip out too much forward and not deliver its power. What 
> would cause this? Could the keys not be levelled high enough?

Hi Julia,

I'm sort of directionally confused here.  Is forward towards the piano, or 
towards the player?

Thanks,

Dave Stahl

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