<div>You can order two different heights of rest felt on the Tokiwa. </div>
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<div>Keith<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fred Sturm</b> <<a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 6/16/07 6:56 AM, "<a href="mailto:A440A@aol.com">A440A@aol.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:A440A@aol.com">
A440A@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I have<br>> increased the height of the rest cushions to overcome the capsizing problem.<br>> It is not only much easier than raising the cleats, it doens't upset the<br>
> hammerflange pin to string relationship, (though there is often much to be<br>> improved<br>> in this regard if the pinblock is not too thick.)<br><br> Yes, and on occasion I have peeled felt from the rebound cushion to
<br>allow for enough blow without the shanks actually resting on the cushion.<br>Adding and subtracting felt works okay with the current Steinway wipps (and<br>Renner), basically just a bit of fairly firm damper felt, but it's a problem
<br>with the old style, with the red felt glued around and over the white (still<br>replicated by Tokiwa). Anyone have a good method for adjusting thickness of<br>those red strip covered pillows? I've cut them off and replaced with the new
<br>style (Pianotek has a couple thicknesses), but maybe there's a nifty, faster<br>way I haven't come up with, to add thickness without going to all that<br>trouble.<br> This is often a further problem on those Steinway grands where the lower
<br>shoulder (and staple) of the tenor hammers likes to lock up with the leather<br>on the checks on some rebounds (My Bs from the 60s are all like that). A<br>different kind of lock up. Bottom line is there needs to be minimal distance
<br>between shanks at rest and pillows, but sometimes that's hard (or at least<br>inconvenient) to accomplish - and have everything else work as one wants.<br>One certainly doesn't want to base regulation on where the pillow tops
<br>happen to be.<br>Regards,<br>Fred Sturm<br>University of New Mexico<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>