The only thing I would worry about is geometry. Will simple removal of the leather mean that the shift lever might slam against the key bed on a heavy-footed blow? Will there still be enough play to get the shift you want? That kind of thing. In which case, you replace the leather with equal thickness of wood, maybe a little hardwood insert (another use for those hornbeam spacers). Noise isn't a problem as far as I can see. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Nov 19, 2008, at 10:46 AM, reggaepass at aol.com wrote: > Greetings List, > > Some pianos originally have leather where the shift lever contacts > the side of it's slot in the keyframe. Others do not. Is there any > good reason not to remove worn out keyframe-shift-lever-slot-leather > (sounds like I'm translating from German, don't it?), thereby > converting it to "bareback' style (a la Steinway and others)? > > Thanks, > > Alan Eder > > Traveling over the river or through the woods this holiday season? > Get the MapQuest Toolbar. Directions, Traffic, Gas Prices & More! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081119/fb05ced5/attachment.html>
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