[pianotech] help

[Ken & Pat Gerler]

Ursula,

It sound like the wrong screws was used to attach a leg and the screw has just penetrated the keybed just slightly to hold the action. Back off the leg screws on the right a turn or two and see if the action will come out.  I have run across that in the past.

Ken Gerler
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ursula Hammerling 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:23 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] help




        Joseph,

        I lubricated that spring while I was there because I had thoughts about that too. And yes ,you are right, the spring is on the bass side of the piano, but that is also the side that buckles a little bit.(I am sorry, I meant the shift pedal shifts to the left and not the sustain pedal in my original mail.) It seems the action is hanging on the right rear side. 
        I guess from what else I read in other mails, I will have to look for a hidden screw that holds tight in some way the right back of the action.

        Thank you for your input.
        Ursula

        --- On Fri, 2/19/10, Joseph Alkana <josephspiano at comcast.net> wrote:


          From: Joseph Alkana <josephspiano at comcast.net>
          Subject: Re: [pianotech] help
          To: pianotech at ptg.org
          Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 6:25 PM


          Correction, if action shifts to left, then check the spring which is probably located to the bass side. I got hung up in your terminology of the “sustain pedal shifts” verbiage and spaced. I don’t think you mean the sustain shifts, do you? Whatever end the silly spring is on for the soft pedal function, check it for a bad dug-into-the-wood problem with the keyframe.

          Joseph Alkana RPT  (Retired)




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          From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Alkana
          Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:15 PM
          To: pianotech at ptg.org
          Subject: Re: [pianotech] help



          Check the return spring for the soft pedal action on the treble end to see if it is dug into the wood there on the side of the keyframe. It could be hung up, not allowing you to pull the action forward. Been there, done that, already thrown away the T-shirt.



          Joseph Alkana RPT (Retired)


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          From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ursula Hammerling
          Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:01 PM
          To: pianotech at ptg.org
          Subject: [pianotech] help



                Hello,

                I very much like an answer to a problem, that I encountered today. 
                I wanted to open a Premier Baby Grand 4'9" and I stumbled upon a problem removing
                the action. I removed the fall board with cheek blocks attached, and the key slip. There were no other screws holding the action in place. I also removed part of the trap work since I thought, that the broken 'soft' pedal might have something sticking upward to make removing of the action impossible. I was able to lift the front of the action up so I could look underneath, whether a screw might have been drilled through the key bead and so impeding the removal of the action. There was nothing visible. The bass side of the action gave way to about 1/8 of an inch, the treble side moved nothing. (The sustain pedal shifts from right to left). The action felt like being screwed to the back of the piano.

                Does anybody have an idea what I might have missed?

                Thanks for looking at this.


                Ursula Hammerling, RPT




               


       

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