Frozen key dowells

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Wires? Sticker Wires?
Joe Goss
imatunr@primenet.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lillico, RPT" <staytuned@idirect.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: Frozen key dowells


> >I have been reading this thread and for the life of me, can not figure
out
> >what a key dowel is. The capstan?
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> >Piano Tuning & Service
> >Tampa, Florida
> >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
> >
> Yeh, Terry, you got it in one..... almost!
>
> I know I threw you with the extra "l" (that's old English). You thought it
was "do-well" at the end of the key! But in my limited vocabulary, the dowel
is the wooden thing on top of the wire which (the dowel) adjusts up and
down. A capstan is the same thing "cept it is made of metal.
>
> So someone please tell me, what do we call the wires that come out of the
back of the key to accommodate the dowel for it's these wires that are
breaking?
>
> John Lillico, RPT
> Oakville, ON
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