I had one a couple of weeks ago... The chief complaint in this art deco, painted, no name spinet, was that when he played anywhere around middle C, 3 notes either side of middle C also played at the same time. Turns out a 4d galvanized nail was stuck down by the elbows and was laying across about 6 notes in all. Worked like a gang bar for all the notes. It took long tweezers and a bit of patience to work it down to the end where I could remove the nail. :-) Rob McCall On Oct 18, 2011, at 20:32 , KeyKat88 at aol.com wrote: > Greetings, > > In this work, its usually something logical like that. As you get more experience, confidence grows and one actually looks forward to 'saving the day' for a customer. Keep up the good work. I remember being worried about 5 keys in a spinet that were stuck. Here I found a small plastic toy rhinocerous - tusks and all - fallen down behind the sticker wires, it looked like he was in a cage at the zoo. > > Julia Gottshall, > Reading, PA > > In a message dated 10/18/2011 7:39:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, pianotune05 at hotmail.com writes: > Hi John & Julia, > It turns out it was just a pencil lying in such a way that it was causing the key to bind. I had to take the key cover off and reach in a little and there it was waiting for someone to set it free. lol I thought about it this morning and read about the sostenuto, and thought the tab could have been grabing the blade. I was so glad I didn't have to spend time taking the piano apart because my wife was on a tight schedule to get back to pick the kids up. It was a 45 minute drive each way. I'm glad that pencil saved the day. lol > Marshall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20111019/35dbab70/attachment.htm>
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