too-thick keytops

[Mike Kurta]

    Can't think of an easier way to get around your problem, anyone else?
    Mike Kurta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Spalding" <spalding48@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:22 AM
Subject: too-thick keytops


> Listers:
>
> Someone asked, a few months ago, do I need to bother removing wood from
the
> top of the keys before gluing on the thick plastic keytops?  Here is the
> answer, and a question about how to fix the problem.
>
> Old upright with new hammers and new keytops, but was way out of
> regulation.   Had to put thin punchings under the whites and thick under
> the blacks in order to keep blacks from burying when played.  Problem:
> whites are stopped by the front rail punchings under the blacks, so I
can't
> get proper dip on the whites.  I've brought the keys home, planning to
> remove 1/16 or so from the bottoms of the whites in line with the black
> front rail punchings.  Knowing that my first thoughts usually run to
"brute
> force" solutions", I'm asking if there is a simpler / more elegant / less
> intrusive way to fix the problem??
>
> thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
> Michael Spalding
> spalding48@earthlink.net
>
>
>
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