Terry, Steinway calls them DAG blocks and recommends adding veneer/planing-off of the key-frame if adjustments must be made. (Remember the una-corda/shift-pedal.) Presumably Kawai key rails aren't adjustable, don't have one here on the floor to look at. Good luck, Andrew Anderson At 04:06 PM 9/1/2006, you wrote: >Older Kawai grand. The piano lacks tone in the top two octaves - >progressively gets worse toward C88. Cearly, C88 is hitting the >string at the capo - clearly the action is too far forward. However, >the key bed has three or four wooden stop blocks screwed to it that >prevent the action from being moved further back (what are those >blocks called?). I have not run into this before. What is the best >fix? Removing, plugging, and redrilling the stop blocks would be >difficult in the cramped quarters of the action cavity. Should I >just carefully plane/cut off a few millimeters from the rear rail of >the action frame and then position with the adjustable thingees >(what are they called?) in the cheek blocks? > >Seems to me it's one or the other. Any better suggestions? Thanks. > >Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060901/f4c3781c/attachment.html
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