The part that bothers me about this is that several somebodies knew about this during production and still it went through. The person making the keys had to know, the person installing the keys had to know, the person “regulating” the action had to know, the initial tuners had to know—and that was all before the piano left the factory and it leaves out any possible “inspectors.” And then there is the staff at the dealer’s place of business. Even if the piano was not “prepped” in any meaningful way, somebody had to tune the piano in the customer’s home. And, unless it hasn’t been tuned since it was delivered to the initial customer and now several other “tooners” had to know as well. And we wonder just why America lost its piano manufacturing companies to offshore competition. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 6939 Foothill Court SW, Olympia, Washington 98512 USA Phone 360.515.0119 — Cell 360.388.6525 del at fandrichpiano.com <mailto:del at fandrichpiano.com> — ddfandrich at gmail.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Richmond Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 6:57 PM To: pianotech Subject: [pianotech] pulley key... So I was working on a splendid Kincaid spinet today. I was tuning away and there was this one note that kept making a knocking sound. Sure enough, the back of the keytop was hitting the keystop rail (or whatever you call it on an upright piano). Not only was it hitting the rail, but there was a huge space in front of the key. I wiggled the key fore and aft. Dang, that was the pulliest key I'd ever encountered. I removed the key and the pictures explain it. Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, IL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120926/5023533b/attachment.htm>
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