---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Mark Well it just seems that now & again every body has a set of shanks that tighten up & its' not just Renner. WHy is always the question & usually without difinitive answers but A dilute solution of Alcohol & water is my first choice remedy to reduce friction followed perhaps by silicone oil mixed about 10 to 1 with tolulene. If this doesnt' work then re- pinning is the remedy. A production line approach to this can usually get the job done in 3 to 4 hours & you can then be sure of the frictions. Hey the tone may even improve some Dale Erwin encountered something similar this past August, during a spell of particularly high humidity. The piano was a recently rebuilt S&S B with Renner shanks, and although they are usually fine I found that on the day I was there many of them were seized right up (less than one swing). The owner has a high-end home recording studio with a session scheduled for the next morning, and I had luckily stopped that afternoon to check the piano just to make sure that nothing other than tuning would be necessary. We removed the action to his finished basement, put it next to the dehumidifier, and when I returned in the morning to tune, all was fine. - Mark Dierauf ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ac/83/d2/79/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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