A plea for sanity, While it's still a long way from comprehensive, there is a standard reference in this country that would eliminate most of the characteristic recursive guesswork when someone asks a question making up parts names as they go along. For $20 and shipping, "Piano Parts and Their Functions" would often save considerably more than that in cumulative time spent just trying to understand the description. A lot of us were in the business long before the piano crisis hotline existed, and will likely still be when it ends, and so were forced to figure straightforward mechanical linkages (and a lot of other things) out for ourselves. Given the amazing luxury of an on line knowledge base willing to help, the consideration of using the most widely recognized and nominally standardized nomenclature gives the people trying to help something to work with, without making long Q&A translation not worth the effort. With a $20 book, we'd save 20 posts attempting clarification as everyone could look up the same common names, and start with the actual problem. I understand that it's an unreasonable expectation, but it remains what I consider a reasonable request to at least make some attempt to accurately name what we're talking about. Ron N
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