I have a problem with our Clavinova.

Two keys come back up to its original position far too slowly when pressed. Violinutter and our toddler son ("TS") has been mucking about a lot with it during the Christmas holiday and I left her to keep an eye on him but when I returned, I found to my horror, twice, TS laughing aloud and sitting on the piano after his "recital"! How could she let him get away with that?! *astonished* I wonder how many times he has been doing it and whether THAT caused the keys to go awry. Anyway, we had a good laugh then but now I think, I don't want to pay for a repairer if I can help it?

Any ideas as to the cause? Or, HOW to sort the problem out? Please advise if you have a clue or the same problem before?

Thanks,
Tess

Could it be crumbs or something between the keys? I don't know enough about the Clavinova to know how the keys are fixed or if you can get to them like on an acoustic piano. A thin stiff artists brush and-or the hoover might help.

Thinking it's best not to stick anything metal between the keys because a circuit panel might be in the key bed or what you call it.

That was GOOD advice, curacao. Thanks! I'd clean forgotten about the circuit panel!!! Will try the hoover this weekend. Thanks a lot.

It is highly unlikely that a toddler would be able to hit a clavinova hard enough to damage the keys (would be pretty hard for an adult to do that!) so it's likely that something has got spilt/wedged down there...

Hit? No, no, he's very gentle when playing with his darling piano! We used to have a video player and we recorded him playing on it when he was about 5 and he couldn't even sit up properly then as he was far too young a babe then and he sometimes fell backwards onto the floor - bohm and it was very funny! Anyway, when he finished playing on that video, he KISSED his piano - very slowly and gently. Can you beat that?! He had us in stitches, he did. He was only a babe! Great, we recorded the whole thing on video tape so he could laugh at himself, too, some day.

And now, this very same toddler sat laughing on his piano keys after playing. He SAT on the keys! I laughed, too, incredulous and astonished when I first saw the sight. But realised much later that it wasn't so funny. Before you get any wrong ideas, Kovich, he's no prodigy. He's autistic and some autistic kids do get very obsessed and fixated with music from a very early age. Can be refreshingly amusing at times, this boy! I have a lovely photo of him smiling with the most delicious GLEE sitting right next to his piano.

Sorry, I went off-tangeant!