Ron, I seem to run across a lot of spinets whose high treble keys BARELY return because of how short they are. I haven't tried the key gutting technique. The other day I was prepared to to screw a wood screw into the back of the key to encourage the geometry, but the situation did not require it. Has anyone else tried weighting the rear of spinet keys as a way to encourage them to come back up? -John Parham > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [pianotech] Key balancing > From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> > Date: Tue, December 14, 2010 11:46 pm > To: pianotech at ptg.org, caut at ptg.org > > > A Cable spinet this morning, was a semitone low, and had the compulsory > non-repeating C-8, so I fixed both. I've done this to dozens, if not > hundreds of small pianos (mostly Baldwins, it seems [the key, that is]), > and it's the only thing I've found that is reliable. Takes about equal > amounts of time to disassemble and reassemble as to do the whittling. > This is why the bottom of my tool box has always had giant shavings of > one sort or another in it since day one. > > Ron N
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