Yeah, or jack flange popped loose. Alan Barnard Salem, MO Original message From: "Joseph Alkana" To: "Pianotech List" Received: 3/29/2007 10:39:50 PM Subject: Re: Baldwin spinet "lost motion" issue twice in one week.... Broken jack spring? Joseph Alkana RPT ----- Original Message ----- From: piannaman at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:29 PM Subject: Baldwin spinet "lost motion" issue twice in one week.... ...or "why I love spinet pianos!" First piano was in a multimillion dollar home. A little Baldwin spinet, this one with inverted sticker type action. The lady had purchased it for 400$ without any kind of consultation, and her husband and five if his friends had toted it up the stairs and into their castle. I was tuning away, and found one note that wouldn't regulate. Everything was there, but the lost motion ate up about a quarter inch of keydip. I looked for things that might be wedged in there, but I could find nothing. And I didn't have time to pull the action, having already spent most of the appointment pitch raising the pso and vacuuming out the various places where who-knows-what may have dwelt. Second piano, a just-delivered rental piano, had the same symptoms--again on only one note--but it was one of the newer type Baldwins with the rubber grommets hooked into the lifter fork, and the plastic nut on top. I checked linkage as much as I could, but could find nothing wedged anywhere on either instrument, though on the second one the connecter to the elbow was sitting up too high. Very frustrating. I explained to the owner and renter that this is one big reason why spinets in general should be avoided. Anybody experienced this? Thoughts on why this might occur? I'm convinced that there is something wedged inside that I can't see or get to without yanking the action, but any suggestions are more than welcome! Dave Stahl, RPT but humbled by Baldwins again Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070330/7d85591a/attachment-0001.html
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