Hey Now to Dale and all list dwellers, I know this thread has long past (at least a few days), but I've been behind on my list reading since the Ca convention. I bought a key dip gauge from Jurgen, not sure if its Dales or not but definitely the same concept. I asked Jurgen about a ten mm dip gauge and he said he was working on it. Mine measures .374 or 3/8's. So after reading many emails related to this thread I was anxious to go out and try it. Besides I wanted to apply many of the tricks and techniques I had learned about regulation at the convention.. Being the patient was a Kawai I started adding strips of masking tape to achieve a ten mil dip with my new gauge. I got to 9.8 mm and was thinking ahhhhh close enough. Then I remembered David Anderson prefers a 10.2 or 10.3 dip (I think). So one more strip of tape and tada!!!!! 10.2 on the money. I love my new dip thingy. Especially for quick checks to see if your in the ball park, and definitely much easier and faster on the sharps. Now for my question to Dale and the group. It appears that the gauge is designed to measure right at the key pin true? The reason I ask this is that I know using a dip block you can come up with different readings depending on where the dip block is placed on the key. I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Pomona Valley Chapter with a big assist from the La Chapter for putting on a great convention. Steve Blasyak Orange County Chapter Pura Vida -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090307/46f6d691/attachment.html>
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