Hello Jim, Sr., At 10:18 10/30/98 -0700, you wrote: >My friend again wonders about the advantages or disadvantages of running the >balance rail bushing cloth through the slots of the keybutton and up to the >top surface. A cross section of the bushing area might look something like >this: Advantages 1. ease of manufacturing - cloth laid in glued groove and cut/clamped in place before attaching to key 2. fool avoidance - makes it _real_ hard to peel off one side when put in piano by hurried and/or inexperienced key installer/tooner Disadvantage 1. rebushing - durn near impossible to rebush in original style without removing buttons, but unnecessary for proper functioning, anyway. Straight sided works just fine. Conrad Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@luther.edu Luther College (319)-387-1204 Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Music - Communication that exposes us to the work of great minds that were dissatisfied by the limits of the spoken language - Martin Tolchin
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