Need Keyboard Tech Help

January 8, 2008 - 11:21pm — Jim

I have a Yahama P90, and after our show at the Hotel Vernon on Friday--damn you, First Fridays!--I pulled it out of the bag and discovered that one of the keys is stuck in a position raising it about a half-inch above the rest of the keys. I can depress it so that it is even with the rest of the keys, and that sounds the note, but then it returns to its higher position--like it's the king of the keyboard or something, and doesn't take crap from any of the other notes.

Anyone other keyboardists ever experience this? Know how to fix it? If not, where can I take it that will fix it without keeping it for a week or charging me a bundle to fix it?

Thanks for any advice.

P.S. Just kidding about First Fridays, of course--love First Fridays! I'm pretty sure I saw one of the guys in Preacher Roe with some superglue and a screwdriver, messing around with my keyboard while I was ordering a PBR.

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January 9, 2008 - 9:42am — duncan

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I have seen this before. I can't recall if I have ever successfully fixed it though. I typically take things apart and try and fix them, then when I have made it way worse than it was I send it out.

Mossberg had a keyboard repaired recently at the Hammond store on Lincoln st. and I believe Union has someone or someplace that they send keyboards out to.

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January 9, 2008 - 2:59pm — Matt

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Believe me, Jim needs more help than an electronics shop can offer.

Side note: That Hammond Organ building in Main South, on May Street, that's been in the papers lately for rehab into condominiums, is that "the" Hammond Organ company? Should I have heard Jimmy Smith's "Root Down" and Merle Saunders blasting out of there a few decades ago?

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January 9, 2008 - 3:11pm — duncan

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Matt wrote: Side note: That Hammond Organ building in Main South, on May Street, that's been in the papers lately for rehab into condominiums, is that "the" Hammond Organ company? Should I have heard Jimmy Smith's "Root Down" and Merle Saunders blasting out of there a few decades ago?

I don't know much about that building. Here's what Google gets.

Hammond Organ Factory ** (added 1980 - Building - #80000632)
9 May St., Worcester
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering,
Event Architect, builder, or engineer: Unknown
Architectural Style: Second Empire
Area of Significance: Architecture, Industry Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function: Manufacturing Facility Current Function: Commerce/Trade
http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MA/Worcester/state6.html

and unrelated I found out this.

October 9, 1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, MA, received a patent for a "Musical Instrument" ("Apparatus for Producing Music by Steam or Compressed Air"); a calliope; consisted of 15 whistles, of graduated sizes, attached in a row to the top of a small steam boiler, a long cylinder with pins of different shapes driven into it so that when the cylinder revolved, the pins pressed the valves and blew the whistles in proper sequence; later, Stoddard replaced the cylinder with a keyboard; wires running from the keys to the valves enabled the operator to play the instrument like a piano.
http://www.kipnotes.com/Entertainment.htm

and then I felt like adding a link to some bad ass Hammond organ playing from the '70s in Worcester by my dad
here's a link full show at www.alarsenault.com

January 9, 2008 - 8:21pm — Jim

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That was some badass playing by your Dad, Duncan. Very cool.

The follow-up to this thread is that I went to Union Music tonight while my daughter was taking her guitar lesson and explained the problem. The guy said that they could do it, but it would cost $65, and he said it was a pretty simple fix I could probably do myself. I said, Well, my very unhelpful and snide bandmate thinks I can't handle it. But the Union guy was encouraging, so I went home, took off the top housing, and had the errant key slipped back into its groove in about three minutes. Screwed the top on, plugged it back in, and everything's a go.

For now.

January 9, 2008 - 9:36pm — duncan

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I am glad to hear you opened it up and fixed it! I love when that happens.

And thanks for listening to that song, if you want to hear the rest of that show I have the whole thing and others streaming at www.alarsenault.com

January 9, 2008 - 11:25pm — preachahroe

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i saw ruggy spewing heineken into said keyboard. just sayin.

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January 10, 2008 - 12:34pm — Matt

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Holy shit! That Babe Pino stuff is amazing. Your dad's playing is world class! That sure is the real B3 thing!

Oh, and thanks for digging up the 411 on the Hammond building. I guess that's what the internet is for.

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