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Nord Piano key repair

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Hi!
After lending my Nord Piano for a couple of months, I received it back with a broken key... broken in a way that does not come up again. I opened the housing today and found out that that little pink clip is broken (see pictures). What is the best way to fix this?

Should I try to glue the piece back on? It seems quite fragile and I doubt that this will hold for long. Is there a replacement piece? And if yes, how would I get this in? Do I have to remove all of them and "slide" them on that pole?

Thanks for any hints!

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Re: Nord Piano key repair

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Hi, and what a bummer!

You could ask here, they have some spare parts for Clavia/Nord: https://www.synth-parts.com/
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Re: Nord Piano key repair

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Thanks for the suggestion! I wrote to them, let's see!
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Nordlicht wrote:Hi, and what a bummer!

You could ask here, they have some spare parts for Clavia/Nord: https://www.synth-parts.com/
I doubt that spare parts suppliers can provide that specific single plastic part rather than the full keybed (and I see no Nord Stage parts on that site, in general), in any case I would first ask to the official Nord distributor for Germany (contacts available at https://www.nordkeyboards.com/distributors) as recommended by https://www.nordkeyboards.com/support

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I actually wrote to the online store where I bought the keyboard, but they said, that they are not an authorised repair service. So, I contacted Nord directly now.

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JohannesD wrote:I actually wrote to the online store where I bought the keyboard, but they said, that they are not an authorised repair service. So, I contacted Nord directly now.

Thanks!
Not Nord, you should contact Sound Service European Music Distribution

Sound Service GMbH
Moriz-Seeler-Straße 3
D-12489 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49-(0)33708 933-0
keyboard.channel@sound-service.eu


(or maybe that's waht you mean and did...)
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Re: Nord Piano key repair

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For anyone who comes here with the same problem: I was able to repair this myself.

Sound Service provided me with a replacement piece, but I wasn't sure how I would actually get the broken piece out and put the new one in place. Sound Service confirmed that I would have to take out all the clips up to the broken one, and gave me the following useful tip how to do so:

I first hammered the pole out a bit, and then tightened my drill's chuck around the pole. Then, while turning the drill, I was able to pull out the pole. Before that, I removed all the keys from the clips (and used the opportunity to clean them a bit).

Piano works again!
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