At 9:48 PM -0400 9/3/02, Greg Newell wrote:
> In a very informative class from this years convention Jack Wyatt
>talked about lightening the touch on an upright. He proved on an
>action model how cutting off the front third of the balance rail
>cloth punching lightened the touch by about 4 grams!
At 9:40 AM +0200 9/4/02, Richard Brekne wrote:
>The tip about balance rail punchings is a good one, but you have to insure the
>cut off edge stays put and doesnt turn to face sideways or some other
>direction... which for some reason I do not really understand can happen.
David Stanwood was adjusting key ratios with this "battlefield medic"
technique five (?) years ago. You keep the punching in place by
gluing it to the underside of the key.
Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
"I gotta go ta woik...."
...........Ian Shoales, Duck's Breath Mystery Theater
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