Grand Jacks

[Michael Magness]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:53 PM, AlliedPianoCraft <
AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Alan, Steinway did refer to the jack as the "fly", but we always referred
> to the knuckle as the knuckle. Maybe they called it a roller in the very
> early years, but we always called it the knuckle in the 60's and 70's.
>
> Al Guecia
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>  *From:* reggaepass at aol.com
> *Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2008 5:40 PM
> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org
> *Subject:* Re: Grand Jacks
>
> Doesn't Steinway, in their own particular dialect of piano-ese, call what
> others refer to as the jack, the "fly," and what others refer to as the
> knuckle, the "roller"?
>
> Alan Eder
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Moy <jim at jimmoy.com>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 2:10 pm
> Subject: Re: Grand Jacks
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:30 AM, AlliedPianoCraft
>
> <AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com> 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....
>
>
> Where did that expression come from anyway?
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Actually the correct name for "jacks" is flyjacks although I haven't heard
it called that by too many people in many, many years.

Mike

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Michael Magness
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