Any chance problem piano looks something like the gleaming beauty pictured below???? Who has been badmouthing these old Wurlys? Hey they and the old Baldwin Acrosonics - both when they had the separate capstan rail (what do you call that extra rail?) - were among the best of the little crap spinets! I've certainly seen/serviced worse. I love how this thing opens up - if you take off all the hinged panels, there's nothing left but the back/soundboard/plate/bottom board/keybed assembly - everything is exposed. Pretty cool actually. The Wurly pictured above - the owner - an elderly lady - grew up with the piano, and it was in reasonably functional shape. I refurbished the insides (full regulation, hammer filing, etc.) and had it refinished and polished the brass (check out them pedals!) - put new grill cloth in the kneeboard, etc., etc. for a POS, its a great little piano! I enjoy my service call every time she calls me to tune this little beauty! 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100204/4c5de295/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pr001-01.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 35969 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100204/4c5de295/attachment-0001.jpg>
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