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Encountered an old Chickering player grand this week.  Could not locate the serial number.  The player "stack" and controls were in a drawer under the keyboard.   Looked to have been rebuilt at some juncture.  Cheek block screws were accessed via a little decorative rubber "button" on top of the block.  I'm "guessing" the keyslip was attached in similar fashion, but the rubber buttons which I suspect were hiding the screws had rotted and were "decapitated".   The player mechanism has been converted to electric motor at some point as well. Fortunately, I did not need to pull the action in order to retrieve the pencils that were causing action problems; but for future reference:

1)  Can I drill these rubber buttons out to access the keyslip screws, or is there a better approach?

2)  What issues may be lurking when attempting to pull the action? 

Encountered an old Chickering player grand this week.  Could not locate the serial number.  The player "stack" and controls were in a drawer under the keyboard.   Looked to have been rebuilt at some juncture.  Cheek block screws were accessed via a little decorative rubber "button" on top of the block.  I'm "guessing" the keyslip was attached in similar fashion, but the rubber buttons which I suspect were hiding the screws had rotted and were "decapitated".   The player mechanism has been converted to electric motor at some point as well. Fortunately, I did not need to pull the action in order to retrieve the pencils that were causing action problems; but for future reference:

1)  Can I drill these rubber buttons out to access the keyslip screws, or is there a better approach?

2)  What issues may be lurking when attempting to pull the action? 

Encountered an old Chickering player grand this week.  Could not locate the serial number.  The player "stack" and controls were in a drawer under the keyboard.   Looked to have been rebuilt at some juncture.  Cheek block screws were accessed via a little decorative rubber "button" on top of the block.  I'm "guessing" the keyslip was attached in similar fashion, but the rubber buttons which I suspect were hiding the screws had rotted and were "decapitated".   The player mechanism has been converted to electric motor at some point as well. Fortunately, I did not need to pull the action in order to retrieve the pencils that were causing action problems; but for future reference:

1)  Can I drill these rubber buttons out to access the keyslip screws, or is there a better approach?

2)  What issues may be lurking when attempting to pull the action? 

Encountered an old Chickering player grand this week.  Could not locate the serial number.  The player "stack" and controls were in a drawer under the keyboard.   Looked to have been rebuilt at some juncture.  Cheek block screws were accessed via a little decorative rubber "button" on top of the block.  I'm "guessing" the keyslip was attached in similar fashion, but the rubber buttons which I suspect were hiding the screws had rotted and were "decapitated".   The player mechanism has been converted to electric motor at some point as well. Fortunately, I did not need to pull the action in order to retrieve the pencils that were causing action problems; but for future reference:

1)  Can I drill these rubber buttons out to access the keyslip screws, or is there a better approach?

2)  What issues may be lurking when attempting to pull the action? 

Encountered an old Chickering player grand this week.  Could not locate the serial number.  The player "stack" and controls were in a drawer under the keyboard.   Looked to have been rebuilt at some juncture.  Cheek block screws were accessed via a little decorative rubber "button" on top of the block.  I'm "guessing" the keyslip was attached in similar fashion, but the rubber buttons which I suspect were hiding the screws had rotted and were "decapitated".   The player mechanism has been converted to electric motor at some point as well. Fortunately, I did not need to pull the action in order to retrieve the pencils that were causing action problems; but for future reference:

1)  Can I drill these rubber buttons out to access the keyslip screws, or is there a better approach?

2)  What issues may be lurking when attempting to pull the action? 

Encountered an old Chickering player grand this week.  Could not locate the serial number.  The player "stack" and controls were in a drawer under the keyboard.   Looked to have been rebuilt at some juncture.  Cheek block screws were accessed via a little decorative rubber "button" on top of the block.  I'm "guessing" the keyslip was attached in similar fashion, but the rubber buttons which I suspect were hiding the screws had rotted and were "decapitated".   The player mechanism has been converted to electric motor at some point as well. Fortunately, I did not need to pull the action in order to retrieve the pencils that were causing action problems; but for future reference:

1)  Can I drill these rubber buttons out to access the keyslip screws, or is there a better approach?

2)  What issues may be lurking when attempting to pull the action? 

Encountered an old Chickering player grand this week.  Could not locate the serial number.  The player "stack" and controls were in a drawer under the keyboard.   Looked to have been rebuilt at some juncture.  Cheek block screws were accessed via a little decorative rubber "button" on top of the block.  I'm "guessing" the keyslip was attached in similar fashion, but the rubber buttons which I suspect were hiding the screws had rotted and were "decapitated".   The player mechanism has been converted to electric motor at some point as well. Fortunately, I did not need to pull the action in order to retrieve the pencils that were causing action problems; but for future reference:

1)  Can I drill these rubber buttons out to access the keyslip screws, or is there a better approach?

2)  What issues may be lurking when attempting to pull the action?