Patrick, you raise an interesting question. I understand that wood shrinks and swells with humidity changes. But is there really a systematic, long term, significant shrinkage of properly seasoned wood, independent of humidity effects? I may be showing my extreme ignorance here, but that's not a new thing. What makes me ask is that if the width of the key shrinks significantly over decades,wouldn't the other two dimensions shrink significantly also? Key length and height - at least maybe height. Dave Smith SW FL From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@attbi.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:22 AM Subject: Re: Keytop Trimming Question/Dave Smith > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 10:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote: > > > Interesting to think about improving on the original, rather than just > > not > > messing up in re-creating it. > > I don't think it's a matter of improving on the original, but rather > compensating for shrinkage (and possibly wear) which has reduced the > key stick's dimensions over the decades. > > Patrick > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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