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OK, have just got a hygrometer through the post today. Have been running dehumidifire for 2 days . Humidity in the room at the moment seems to be reading as around 47%ish. F# & D are still intermittently not sounding. How long will it take the piano to adjust to a lower humidity. Is it possible ...

Many thanks. Have contacted a different piano tuner. Think that some keys may be improved, tho F# still not right.This one has suggested fitting dampchaser in any case & will look at keys that are a problem next week. Let's hope dehumidifier does the trick. Wouldf I need to combine dehumidifier ...

The problem wasn't there when we got the piano but has been there for at least a year though possibly not as noticeably as at present. It's a very old house & the room it is in has stone walls though is not noticeably damp and has a reasonable amount of heat as we have a solid wood floor in that...

"it could be hammers just off the rest not allowing the jacks to return" - have managed to find a diagram of the parts I was trying to describe & I think that it is the jacks occasionally not returning. Has this likely been caused by a moisture/humidity problem. i am running a dehumidi...

Have now taken front off the piano so can try to see what's happening. To me it seems that the white plastic looking length that pushes the hammer up occasionally seems to jam slightly forward of the rounded felted curve at the bottom of the ?hammer. Sorry don't know any of the technical terms. Is t...

Have spoken to tuner - he also said it was a moisture problem though room isn't damp at all. His suggestion to run a fan heater directed in at bottom of piano for a few hours on 2-3 days to see if it sorted it out. Does that sound reasonable to do?

We have a 3y.o. Yamaha E110N. Over the last few months I have noticed that in the second octave above middle c a cluster of notes (currently D to about F#) sometimes appear not to reset their action/mechanism so on playing the note again it doesn't sound. The keys don't stick down & when last tu...