Hi Jon My situation is a bit different... but the point is pretty much the same. There is a 2 mm thick extra felt on the key end felts, the key rest rail felt (underfelt) looks to be non original and too thin, and there is almost no paper punchings under the balance rail felt punchings. Another good one here... there was so much paper under the black keys front rail punchings that the white keys were stopping on the black key front felt punchings. Very cute. Well well... learned something new today. Thanks for pointing out the article, and for your two posts. Cheers RicB >...I see how you can trace backwards with these specs tofind the key height and key end height. OK, now to confuse things a bit... A few years ago, a dealer asked me to see what I could do with the high BW on a S&S B since the in-house guy's only thought was to add more lead to the already overly leaded keys. I noticed there was two rather thick pieces of underfelt on the back rail. This necessitated an inordinately thick amount of punchings on the balance rail to maintain key height. But the key end felt height was 1 3/8". And the Magic Line was way too low, respectively.
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