This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment It's a lot easier to plug and redrill for the front rail pins. =20 David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net=20 -----Original Message----- From: Porritt, David [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Porritt, David Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 8:09 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: RE: [CAUT] key sticks =20 Kent: =20 Are the mortises that far off on the black keys as well? On the white = keys it shouldn't be too hard (well, since it's you doing it and not me) to extend the mortise, or plug & re-mortise it. Black key mortises as so = much more fragile that it would really be tricky. At what point so we just = order new keys? =20 dave =20 __________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@smu.edu =20 _____ =20 From: caut-bounces@ptg.org on behalf of Kent Swafford Sent: Sat 5/28/2005 7:46 PM To: Submit technical files to ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] key sticks I'm sending along 2 pictures of the F1 keystick, B 342631. Note the 7=20 original key leads, and the non-original leather key bushings. But=20 why I'm writing is the interesting location of the wear in the key=20 bushing from contact with the front rail pin. The whole set of keys=20 is similar, and under certain circumstances the front rail pins do=20 indeed bind on the front of the mortise. (This explains a few things!) Any ideas out there with regard to what happened? It looks like the=20 mortise is in the wrong place by just over 1/16". Anything else to=20 watch out for? I know, I know -- watch for _everything_. But it=20 probably is just the mortise in the wrong place, right? Kent Photos at: http://tinyurl.com/cyygq http://tinyurl.com/ao697 Direct ptg.org URLs: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/01/b9/bc/70/DSCN1071.jpg https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/fa/4b/57/a0/DSCN1075.jpg _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 10983 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/5b/f2/6e/10/winmail.dat ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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