Rob, She if she said it stopped working, then I wouldn't expect it to be broken in half. She would have said something like "it fell on the floor." You should be prepared for the possibility that the screws have pulled out of the bottom board. There are other possibilities, of course. In a message dated 4/29/10 3:57:33 PM, rob at mccallpiano.com writes: > Greetings, > > I have an appointment tomorrow for my first Gulbransen spinet. It hasn't > been tuned in 7 years. The lady, who says she's had this same piano for 50 > years, said that during the last week the "legato" pedal just stopped > working. Looking through the archives, I find that this piano made the > "bottom" 10 list, and I read a few things about broken pedals. > > Are broken pedals a common thing for this piano? Is there any consensus > (yeah, right...) :-) on the method to repair it if it is broken? I don't > have any more info than that until I get to the appointment tomorrow. I > just wanted to be as prepared as I can for this "fine" instrument... > > Thanks, > > Rob McCall > > McCall Piano Service, LLC > www.mccallpiano.com > Murrieta, CA > 951-698-1875 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100429/49db3d11/attachment.htm>
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