Loose fittings on the valve boxes....

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czunit
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Loose fittings on the valve boxes....

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While working under the piano I noticed that a lot of the air leaks were caused by the fact that the pipes going into the valve boxes and various pneumatics were.... well, loose.
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As in you could turn them. You can see this in the above picture of the duo art valve assembly, the left 3 tubes for the accompaniment are loose.

And so are the ones for the main air spill valve system
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And the ones going to the reversing and repeat pneumatics.
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And at the pneumatic itself.....
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No wonder these things have problems.
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