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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=sckline@attbi.com href="mailto:sckline@attbi.com">Susan =
Kline</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> December 18, 2002 11:49 =
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: key bushings</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT><BR></DIV>At =
11:03 AM
12/18/2002 -0800, you wrote:<BR>
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MS"
color=#000080>The material didn't stand up well under long-term =
use. There
was no way to fit them to various size pins and pins do vary in =
width. There
was no way to adjust them to take up wear and they did wear. There =
was no
way to hold them in the key mortise -- the ribbed ends just didn't =
make it.
At the time there was no adhesive that would bond to the stuff to =
hold them
in the mortise. They varied in size overly much. The manufacturer =
apparently
used a multi-cavity mold and the cavities seemed to vary some.
</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>I =
think that
about covers it....</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>But aside from THAT, they were just fine! <grin> =
<BR><BR>Susan
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>I find it some =
frustrating that in
this so-called modern age with our sophisticated design techniques, our
computers, our automated tooling and machinery that shameful excuse for =
a
keybushing is the best we can do. Somebody actually spent time and money =
on this
ridiculous thing. Somebody should have been ashamed of themselves but =
probably
didn't know enough about the real piano world to be so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>The traditional key =
bushing
certainly needs improving, but that atrocity was, and is, an affront to =
our
industry and to the buying public. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Then consider, in the =
mid- to
late-1880s a small piano maker in St Petersburg, Russia came up with
this:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080><IMG
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080><IMG =
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src="cid:000d01c2a795$7ec4fd40$0100007f@delsmachine" width=562
align=baseline border=0></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Beautifully made. =
Precisely
detailed. Leather bushed. Fully adjustable -- those are two nicely and =
finely
threaded screws going in from the side and those are two pins going down =
from
the top neatly fitting in machined grooves in those screws. And, yes, =
they are
still fully functional after some 125 or so years.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Ain't progress
grand....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Del =
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
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