On 12/17/2010 11:28 AM, Fred Sturm wrote: > BTW, the technique of removing wood from a key to balance it goes back > at least to harpsichord makers, who wanted everything as light as > possible. No doubt. I certainly didn't invent it. >Enough wood removed so the key barely returned. Better than barely, hopefully. I don't really care about overall lightness either, except that it's easier on the bushings in a dog-legged key. I just like C-8 to work as well (or badly) as everything else, but I do want it to work. Ron N
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