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All agreed, thanks Barry for the good advice. I admit I'm fascinated learning how a real piano works. But I'd absolutely never dream of touching anything inside there myself, and I'm always honest about what I know and what I don't. In fact I wonder whether it might have been my 'honest ignorance' t...

Yes, the shop is coming. I'm sorry to be a bother here with all my questions. The more I learn about what goes into a piano mechanism and how complex it is inside, the more paranoid I've been getting in my worries that it might never be right. It's daft, I know, but I have a lot to learn and I'd hat...

What should the hammers do when you play a note very gently and hold down the key? I've just been having a closer look inside my piano and notice that, in most instances, when I play a note slowly and lightly, and then keep the key held down, the hammer hits the strings then falls back away from the...

Depth of touch (dip in the USA) is the distance the key goes down from rest to play, on most uprights it?s about 9.5mm to 10mm Lost motion this is when you play the key and there is a gap between the capstan at the back of the key and the heel of the whippen. This normally happens with wear or comp...

There are many factors that cause this problem the main ones on uprights are lost motion, incorrect depth of touch (which is what happens when you have lost motion) Jack slap rail to close, Damper slap rail to close - all can be easy fixed but if the piano had been set up in the first place should ...

Sound like the tapes are too tight or one of the slap rails are too close - if you play softly do the hammers double strike a note Barrie, Sound like the tapes are too tight or one of the slap rails are too close - if you play softly do the hammers double strike a note Barrie, Hi Barry, I came acro...