John Asked: " seem to run across a lot of spinets whose high treble keys BARELY return because of how short they are. I haven't tried the key gutting technique. The other day I was prepared to to screw a wood screw into the back of the key to encourage the geometry, but the situation did not require it. Has anyone else tried weighting the rear of spinet keys as a way to encourage them to come back up?" -John, I've developed a whole system to do just that. The impetus was getting the Fandrich-Rhodes Kit from Jurgen. Gave a Chapter class on the whole approach. "Improving the Spinet". Of course it only involves spinets that do not have elbows.<G> The touch can be greatly improved by doing this! I don't recommend the Screw in the back of the key tho.<G> I'm hoping that I'll be able to give same class at a national. Regards,' Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101217/05a39387/attachment.htm>
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