Stuck/Sluggish Keys

[malaguena]

On my piano, I have a couple keys which regularly become sluggish, and don't want to lift up. As I'm playing very fast music, I don't have time between playing on the sluggish keys and coming back to them for them to lift back up on their own; so I often find myself having to stop and un-stick the key, which becomes stuck again as soon as I play it.

Does anybody else have this problem? If so, what did you do?

[silverwoodpianos]

Does anybody else have this problem? If so, what did you do?

I don't have that problem, but if I did I would call my favorite piano technician and book an appointment.

[malaguena]

I did, but his advice isn't helping those keys anymore. Sometimes it's nice to have several ideas from different people on a subject. 

[quantum]

In similar light, it is also nice to have a second opinion from another piano tech.

I've seen this occur before on a spinet piano.  It was not my piano, so cannot comment on how the owner dealt with it. 

[silverwoodpianos]

Slow mechanics is mostly something causing too much friction. If the OP booked an appointment with a piano technician I am wondering why the instrument was not fixed but “His advice is not working anymore.”
I have been a piano technician for 40 years and have never found that psychoanalysis works very well on mechanics.  You actually have to take the thing apart and fix it physically.
Most likely slow action centers.

[indianajo]

There is a video on youtube about stuck keys.  He takes an upright apart and shows all the parts and where the problems can be.
There are two classes of problems, the actual key sticking, and the rest of the action sticking.  I have type two on one note, as every time it fails to strike the actual key is going up and down normally, just not hitting anything. 

[malaguena]

He fixed them himself and told us the ways to fix it, but it doesn't seem to be working....we called him to come check it out, but it's causing problems with my practice right now. I was just curious if anyone would have any tips on that while we waited for him to come.

Thanks, indianajo. I'll look for something like that on YouTube. YouTube, oddly, didn't occur to me...

[silverwoodpianos]

He fixed them himself and told us the ways to fix it, but it doesn't seem to be working....

Then it wasn’t fixed and the advice offered previously is of little value.

Mechanics either work or they do not. Watching videos may assist in learning about the problem but in this case provide no assistance in remedy.

[quantum]

Agree with silverwoodpianos here.  If it was fixed in the first place by the tech, you wouldn't need to keep on fixing it in order to keep it working.