Pianotech

Hello all,

I have a client who had something work its way inside their Yamaha AvantGrand N2 hybrid piano / keyboard. They called me to fix some clicking keys. Upon inspection, there's definitely something struck where the hammers would be in a normal grand. Here these are metallic canisters. 

I went in thinking it would be easy to pull the action. However, the key rail and action brackets are screwed into the base of the instrument, which doesn't appear to slide out like a regular grand key frame. I can't access the screws because of the odd angle. It looks like there might be a way to take apart the top and access the action though there, but I can't find any screws that are accessible from the outside. (Yeah, real smart idea to screw everything together from the inside.)

Does anyone know how to open one of these? I'd even settle for disassembling the action if that's an option. Thanks!

Hello all,

I have a client who had something work its way inside their Yamaha AvantGrand N2 hybrid piano / keyboard. They called me to fix some clicking keys. Upon inspection, there's definitely something struck where the hammers would be in a normal grand. Here these are metallic canisters. 

I went in thinking it would be easy to pull the action. However, the key rail and action brackets are screwed into the base of the instrument, which doesn't appear to slide out like a regular grand key frame. I can't access the screws because of the odd angle. It looks like there might be a way to take apart the top and access the action though there, but I can't find any screws that are accessible from the outside. (Yeah, real smart idea to screw everything together from the inside.)

Does anyone know how to open one of these? I'd even settle for disassembling the action if that's an option. Thanks!

Hello all,

I have a client who had something work its way inside their Yamaha AvantGrand N2 hybrid piano / keyboard. They called me to fix some clicking keys. Upon inspection, there's definitely something struck where the hammers would be in a normal grand. Here these are metallic canisters. 

I went in thinking it would be easy to pull the action. However, the key rail and action brackets are screwed into the base of the instrument, which doesn't appear to slide out like a regular grand key frame. I can't access the screws because of the odd angle. It looks like there might be a way to take apart the top and access the action though there, but I can't find any screws that are accessible from the outside. (Yeah, real smart idea to screw everything together from the inside.)

Does anyone know how to open one of these? I'd even settle for disassembling the action if that's an option. Thanks!

Hello all,

I have a client who had something work its way inside their Yamaha AvantGrand N2 hybrid piano / keyboard. They called me to fix some clicking keys. Upon inspection, there's definitely something struck where the hammers would be in a normal grand. Here these are metallic canisters. 

I went in thinking it would be easy to pull the action. However, the key rail and action brackets are screwed into the base of the instrument, which doesn't appear to slide out like a regular grand key frame. I can't access the screws because of the odd angle. It looks like there might be a way to take apart the top and access the action though there, but I can't find any screws that are accessible from the outside. (Yeah, real smart idea to screw everything together from the inside.)

Does anyone know how to open one of these? I'd even settle for disassembling the action if that's an option. Thanks!

Hello all,

I have a client who had something work its way inside their Yamaha AvantGrand N2 hybrid piano / keyboard. They called me to fix some clicking keys. Upon inspection, there's definitely something struck where the hammers would be in a normal grand. Here these are metallic canisters. 

I went in thinking it would be easy to pull the action. However, the key rail and action brackets are screwed into the base of the instrument, which doesn't appear to slide out like a regular grand key frame. I can't access the screws because of the odd angle. It looks like there might be a way to take apart the top and access the action though there, but I can't find any screws that are accessible from the outside. (Yeah, real smart idea to screw everything together from the inside.)

Does anyone know how to open one of these? I'd even settle for disassembling the action if that's an option. Thanks!