Grand Jacks

Avery Todd ptuner1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 07:47:55 MDT 2008


One more comment. Also make sure the hammers are off the rest rail/felt at
least a little or one could get a false reading when "winking". <grin>

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu>wrote:

> Al, et al,
>
> I get senior citizen discounts some places and I vaguely remember someone
> calling it "rolling the flies", but I seem to recall that the makers of the
> standard piano of the world called it "wink".
> ;-}
>
>
> AlliedPianoCraft wrote:
>
>> I'm happy to see that there is another "old timer" on this list who uses
>> the term "rolling the flies". I'm not alone.....I'm not alone....
>>  Al Guecia
>>
>
>
> *From:* Porritt, David <mailto:dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
>>
>> Repetition lever set too low.  What you did was the way to check the
>> repetition lever height.  Old timers call that "rolling the flies".
>>
>
>
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> Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician
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>
>
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