<!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 6.00.2900.2802" 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=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/28/2006 10:08:12 AM Central Standard Time, piano57@insightbb.com 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> <DIV>A little off the subject, but related--I was wondering about how much repetitions move or stay put.  The question came up for me because I did a <huge> regulation job on an 9 year old Steinway B (obviously over-due) and though the hammers were nice and neatly spaced to the hammer rest felts, the repetitions were all over the place.  They were so bad, my thoughts were that they had never been spaced and traveled correctly to begin with.  When I spaced and traveled them, there wasn't much traveling paper to be seen.  On the other hand, this was a university professor's home piano and it was hard to imagine that the dealer delivered the piano in less than pristine condition.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Comments?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Barbara Richmond, RPT</DIV> <DIV>near Peoria, IL </DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Barb</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Unfortunately, I think the latter might very well be the case. Up until about 5 years ago, Steinway pianos were delivered to stores with the intention that the store would have a technician prep the piano before it was put on the floor. In many cases, the store just didn't do that, not because the owner didn't think it was necessary, (most probably didn't know the difference anyway), but because it was an expense they didn't want to pay.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>