Glad you checked it huh Bruce? :-) I ran up to Lowes eariler today. I bought a 3' aluminum L shaped 1/2" x 1/2" x 3' for 9 bucks. I'm going to try that once. It'll lay flat on the keys without falling over like that Everett board likes to do at the drop of a hat. A friend of mine here took a soft pedal dowel, cut it to size and then drilled a hole dead center in it so that it will fit over the front rail pin. He cuts it so that it is a tad lower than the bottom of the key. After setting the key height on 3 keys, he removes all of the punchings including the felt ones, sets the dowels in place, on A0 C-4 and C8. He uses paper or card punchings to fill in the gap setting so it won't budge when he places pressure on those 3 keys. He sets C4 about 1mm + or so higher. He works from C4- up to and C8 and C4 back on down to the bottom leaving a nice even but ever so slight crown on it. I hadn't thought of that, so on my next job I'm going to give that a shot with this aluminum thing. But, I think I'll pick a note closer to center of the piano maybe F4 instead of C4. The only other one that I could find at Lowes was only 1/8" wide. I wanted it to at least, be able to set on the keys without falling over. Supposedly, aluminum is completely straight and won't bow. I eyed it and it looked good so, we'll see how that works. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Dornfeld Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:04 PM To: pianotech Subject: Re: [pianotech] Piano Key Leveling Now I cannot really say that I have a surface that I know to be really flat, but I tried the old Everett stick on a couple. What I came up with surprised me. With the Everett upside down, there is one mm crown in the middle. When it is right side up, I am getting both ends about one mm higher than the middle - negative crown! One thing was just added to my "to buy list" in Grand Rapids, a better key leveling stick. Thank you Jerry! Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090621-0, 06/21/2009 Tested on: 6/21/2009 11:31:52 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090621/83adec00/attachment.htm>
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