Sorry, Scott, Of course we glued a thin layer of veneer on the top of the let off rails... Not under them! Kjell Kjell Sverre Fardal Kristiansand / Norway Vice President NPTF -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] På vegne av Scott Helms Sendt: 4. februar 2005 00:33 Til: pianotech@ptg.org Emne: Schimmel regulation problem Hello everybody - You might remember that I posted to the list a month or two ago about a problem I was having with regulating a Schimmel grand, and I had to postpone further discussion until I could get the action back from the church and do a little more digging. Well, the action now sits on the bench in my shop, so the discussion continues . . . This is a 1985 6'9" Schimmel in excellent condition. I cannot get the letoff any closer than 4 or 5 mm from the strings, and the letoff buttons are screwed up as high as they will go. I have tightened all action screws, including those on the letoff rail and the wippen rail, and the action spread is 114 mm, which I think is right where it should be. The hammers have been reshaped once, maybe twice, and appear to be in good condition. The hammer bore measurement is 43 mm on C8 (center of hammer shank to end of felt). I am an RPT, and while I wouldn't consider myself to be a top-notch expert at regulation, I am reasonably certain that I'm doing the regulation procedure correctly. I've never encountered a problem like this. Rick Baldassin tells me that he remembers hearing of a similar situation with a Schimmel grand from this period, and there was a problem with the dimensions of the action brackets. In that case, Schimmel had to send new brackets to swap with the old ones. I have emailed Schimmel's technician in Germany, and am awaiting a response from him, but in the meantime I thought I'd check with all of you cybertechs out there :-) Is anyone familiar with this problem, and what can you suggest to fix it? -Scott Helms -- Scott A. Helms, RPT Helms Music Enterprises (269) 381-4521 www.helmsmusic.net _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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