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at 8:14 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:</DIV><BR =
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style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" =
size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I need a history lesson =
here.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Were all those =
Teflon pianos I faced at IWU heavy just because they were Teflon or =
poorly pinned Teflon or a geometry problem or something else?<SPAN =
class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>So what was the =
touchweight like on those hybrids?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px =
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<P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" =
size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Barbara Richmond</FONT></P> =
</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Hi Barbara,</DIV><DIV> I have a =
hybrid D from 1981. No touchweight problems. The bulk of our B's, from =
1965 or so (teflon I) are all teflon (other than the few I have =
replaced), and tend to have flange friction issues - and perhaps =
geometry in some cases - leading to touchweight problems (I investigate, =
see that the real answer is parts replacement, and put it off till =
later. No sense doing a bunch of work that I'll just redo or throw away =
later with new parts).</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><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 =
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