<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] Rep Lever Upstop 'cushion' </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi Jon,     My reaction to similar situations has been to get o= ut the single voicing needle. Three stabs, at a very low angle, heading from= about 1:30, 12:00, 10:30, each going more or less through the center of the= contact point. Seems to work well and last (depending on age of materials, = etc). -- Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico http://music.unm.edu/about/staff_members/fred_s_sturm.php A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. On 10/25/04 1:51 PM, "Jon Page" <jonpage@comcast.net> wrote= : <BLOCKQUOTE> >Don't forget an email to Steinway. Once I got them off the rail I found a stamped date: 30. Marz, 1987. Looks like they're Hamburg. They didn't look that old either. Bolstering did not attenuate the noise significantly from an undercut sample. I trimmed-down an Exacto blade to make a narrow swath. The buckskin is not overly hard, it's just the firm contact with the rep<BR= > lever. Even with replacing the buckskin I might opt to leave glue out from the area under the upstop screw. Undercutting seems to suit the bill, for now anyway. Jon Page </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>