Steinway balance rail bearings

[Ron Nossaman]

> Guess so.  Bob Marinelli suggested it in a class--or was it the bar?  :-)

Ah, perspective. <G>


> I talked to a tech at CERS who had tried it, he said it made a difference.
> Sorry, I can't tell you how much difference it made and I don't have
> any pianos with bearings handy to experiment with.  Why don't you
> give Bob a call?

Maybe. It'd probably just confuse me at this point, and I'd 
have to validate it within my own reality anyway.


  > I wonder what percentage of pulley keys are caused by
> someone trying to solve some other weight/friction/geometry problem by 
> over-easing keys and balance holes.  That's a rhetorical question, BTW.  
> ;-)

Rhetorical or not, I've wondered for a lot of years how pulley 
keys come about, and why they don't always.
Ron N