Sharps knocking puzzler

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 20:24 11/5/2005, you wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:mkurta@adelphia.net>Mike Kurta
>To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech
>Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 7:56 PM
>Subject: Sharps knocking puzzler
>
>     Here's one that took me 1 hour to figure out:
>     Older upright (name not important).  Keys and action removed for 
> repairs, cabinet sent to refinisher.  Piano returned home, I return to 
> reassemble and tune.  Everything fine until I play and find that the 
> inner ends of all the sharps hit the front of the open fallboard upon 
> release.  Keyframe was not removed, same sharps refinished only.  I'm 
> about to file the inner ends of all the sharps to make clearance until I 
> finally see the light!  It took two minutes to correct them all.  What 
> did I do?
>
>    My guess is that you turned on the light.
>     Tom Driscoll


Keystrip which has fall mounted on it wasn't down in the notch at the back 
of the cheekblocks.

Did it fallboard also hit the music shelf ?



Conrad Hoffsommer
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