Clay,
Nomenclature? What is a key rail? I'm guessing that you mean the fall strip. When you remove the fallboard you are left with a finished piece of wood with the nameboard felt glued to its underside .This "rail" as you call it is above the keys and is screwed to the cheek blocks. Am I right?
I know that model and I recently struggled to get the strip off myself. I'm trying to remember the secret but it is not by lifting it up in the middle. I know where there is a Wurlie grave yard and I'll check later this week and report back.
Tom Driscoll
P.S. There are two if not more genders populating the list
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Wurlitzer Spinet key rail removal
Why do you need to remove the key rail to clean the keybed?
Terry Farrell
On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Clayton Bean's Piano Biz wrote:
Gentlemen:
I have a customer that has a Wurlitzer spinet, SN 212659, 1941, that has a 1.5 – 2” wide key rail that I can’t remove.
Need to know how by March 1, 2010 so that I can Clean the keys and keybed.
The rail slides backwards towards the spinet action on 2 inset cut-outs in the piano case itself.
It reaches a stop after about 3-5” of travel and goes no further.
Trying to slide it back at an angle doesn’t help – not enough room to pop out an end.
Lifting it up in the middle allows some bending but I don’t think it’s too rigid to free it without snapping the rail in half.
Would appreciate any solution you might have.
Thank you,
Clay Feb 1, 2010
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