Aftertouch

[Vince Mrykalo]

> By the way, when I was at the Steinway factory training in June under the
> guidance of Scott Jones, I shimmed up my dip block to .042, (if my memory
> serves me correctly), the new recommended speck for NY pianos.  He said that
> they've found, (as others on pianotech have commented,) that the players
> don't notice the difference or complain a'tall.  Of course the Hamburg speck
> remains .040, (another memory disclaimor -- who looks up the numbers
> regularly anyway?  just get it to function, rarely even pull the block out, )
> and I find it interesting that this corresponds to the differences elaborated
> on by David Stanwood regarding lower leverage and higher leverage shank/
> knuckle dimensions.  Parallel evolution.
>
> Audrey Karabinus,   Seattle

I understood that the .420 dimension was for S,M,&L only.  They were
trying to keep the B and D at .390.


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vince mrykalo  rpt

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I've discovered the time i really need a vacation is just
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