<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks very much. Great help.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Kent</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Jon Page wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Good points but a few areas for extra attention:</font></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">(If noise is heard from the blade contacting tabs as the sostenuto</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">pedal is depressed, you may need to rest your finger on each damper</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">in succession while depressing the sostenuto pedal to find the damper</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">tabs that are making contact with the blade.)</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No downwards pressure, lightly rest your finger so as not to press the tab lower.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Depress and continue to hold down the sostenuto pedal. Deliver a</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">double-forte blow to every note that has a damper.</font></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>A little hard on both the fingers and the action. Why not depress the note and</div><div>and lift the damper head with your other hand to see if you can force the tab</div><div>to 'cheat'.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I have found that a visual inspection of blade insertion onto the tabs</div><div>at the ends and aligning them with a straight edge (fore& aft / up & down)</div><div>precludes slipping tabs. A light source from a flexible goose neck works well.</div><div><br></div><div>I fashioned one from a crank-charged flashlight for non-ending light (jpg attached)</div><div>I reassigned the function of the center bulb. My next iteration will have that shaft</div><div>to be a plug-in and not hard wired.  great for inspecting into the action to check</div><div>key end/damper alignment and sos tabs, spinet hammer flange screw too.</div><x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep><div><br>Regards,<br><br>Jon Page<span><crank light.jpg></span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>