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Dave writes:

<<  To adjust the height one must use thinner leather
washers in the mounting.  What an unnecessarily tedious
task!!!!!!!!!!!!  If there were any functional advantage to do it
this way......... >>

   The Steinway way has less hardware hanging on the belly rail, is easier to 
install at the factory.  It also makes regulating the dampers themselves much 
easier and by gollum,  has "tradition" behind it. 
   Changing the height can be done two ways, but shimming is the easiest.  
Simply cut into the edge of the leather shim about 2/3rd of the way through 
and add a piece of veneer or hard cardboard.  Do it on the proximal leather 
and the sos. rod goes down, shim the distal piece and the rod goes up.  
 
Ed Foote RPT 
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html