<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Your results may vary. I tried this on my Baldwin M at home before writing my original post, and it worked (didn't work) fine: key up and down, no hammer striking string. After reading Jon's post, I tried it on a Steinway B at UNM, and the backcheck jammed on the hammer tail immediately. So the check had to be adjusted back for it to work. Then I tried a note on a Yamaha G-2, and it worked fine, but on a piano (as in soft, not forte) keystroke, the hammer would play. The rep spring was too strong. <DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Anyway, at a place like Cal Arts, it might be a worthwhile thing to know how to do, and to go to a bit of trouble to "get it right." For the rest of us, probably not. </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Fred Sturm</DIV><DIV>University of New Mexico</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Jon Page wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">you could adjust the jacks forward,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>I don't see that working because once the note is played</DIV><DIV>the action will capsize and the key will hang down.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>As pointed out earlier, a punching under the sharp will</DIV><DIV>interfere with the naturals unless it is narrow.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>If he wants the keys to operate but not sound, then remove</DIV><DIV>the wip and shank and weight the key. If he just wants the</DIV><DIV>key inoperable, tie a Twist-Tie around the rep lever and shank,</DIV><DIV>a double loop for security. Easily installed, easily removed</DIV><DIV>without interfering with neighboring keys.</DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE style="white-space: pre; ">-- </PRE></X-SIGSEP><DIV><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>