need help cutting felt neatly

JonnPage jonpage@mediaone.net
Sun, 01 Oct 2000 06:50:10 -0400


At 12:22 AM 10/01/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>list,
>
>Two questions:
>
>What do you call the stepped series of counterbearing ridges in the capo
>section?  I mean where each unison has it's own ridge.

A front duplex?


>and (more importantly)
>
>How do you NEATLY cut the understring felt (bellymen felt) to match it?  My
>current attempts are functional, but they aren't pretty!

Rather than trying to cut felt to match the jogs in the counter bearing, 
make punchings
sized to the unison from the felt and trim the height to match.


>Thanks for any suggestions
>
>Gordon Large, RPT
>Maine

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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