Yes! I do Steinways FLAT, as in LEVEL! It's a stupid idea with no Merit whatsoever!!! If you look at the Fallboard edge, it's FLAT! The whole idea of the raised center was to off-set the area that got the most playing. It has nothing to do with regulating or action geometry and any other damned thing! Just Stupid! Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I ----- Original Message ----- From: Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft To: joegarrett at earthlink.net;pianotech at ptg.org Sent: 6/22/09 3:23:31 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Leveling keys I would hope you don't do a Steinway "flat", because you would not be regulating it according to specs. Steinway = curve. Most others = flat. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! Al From: Joseph Garrett Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 5:19 PM To: pianotech Subject: [pianotech] Leveling keys All, To me, the word level means FLAT And paralell to the floor! Anything else is Curving, which I don't do, because I think it's not smart thinkin'.<G> I mean, WHY? Just doesn't make sense to me. I have a Pratt-Read Stick, that has one side curved 1mm and the other is straight. It is a piece of wood, (suspect bass wood), with Ivorine on both sides. That sucker does not deviate one iota....ever! Wish they were still available. I use the curved side when I am leveling keys on my "Master Bench", which has a 1mm crown in it's 2" thick, 7' x 3' laminated maple top. That way, when the action is put back in the piano, the keys are LEVEL, as in flat, as in parallel to the floor/key bed.<G> If I am using the thing in the field, I always use the Straight side. I've never had a pianist ask for such an abomination, so why do it?' That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.<G> Regards, Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090622/95f38adc/attachment-0001.htm>
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