Grand Jacks

[AlliedPianoCraft]

If you're referring to Steinway, they called it "rolling the flies". I was 
taught to "roll the flies and watch for the "wink"". <G>

Al Guecia

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From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 9:37 AM
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: Re: Grand Jacks

> 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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