removal of lacquer/keytop

[Robert Edwardsen]

----- Original Message -----
From: "jolly roger" <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: removal of lacquer/keytop


> We all know that we need flexibility on the shoulders for a wide tonal
> pallet.  A lot of juicing we encounter it mainly surface juicing, which
> really stiffens the whole shoulder, and tends to result in the vicious
> attack type of tone quality. Inner firmness seems to be more important.
> Just rambling aloud, and being provocative.
> regards Roger

Roger,

This thought seems to confirm my thought that "deep needling" in the
shoulder does not really mean all the way done to the molding, just the top
third to half of the felt.  Would you agree?

Rob Edwardsen