<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/2/05 9:09:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, claviers@nxs.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>This is proof of what I have said so many times.  The vibrations of<BR>indivi= dual speaking lengths do not couple across the bridge to their<BR>individual duplexes.  They can't.  Instead, the vibrations couple all up<BR= >and down whole sections of the bridge, to duplexes and speaking lengths alike.<BR><BR>Jim Ellis  <BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Jim</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was led to believe exactly what you are saying. I don't think I've ev= er heard anyone say the duplex string matches the speaking string. As you said,= it is impossible for that to happen. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Glad the solution was found. Now, let's see if who ever buys the piano = will complain about it, and their technician finds the same solution. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>