Thin paper punchings

[John Musselwhite]

At 10:13 PM 7/30/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>In my last rush of responses ... I forgot to reply to this one!
>
>At S&S in Hamburg they use a lever and block to press the keys that are 
>slightly high...their thinest ones aren't as thin as the Yamaha tissue 
>punchings (which I love for that glass-like result).

They used to use them in New York, too. When I made my first pilgrimage to 
S&S in NYC in the 1980s they were still using something like this in 
production. Joe Bisceglie called it a "Tomahawk" .When I went back a few 
years later they were nowhere to be seen and I was told their use had 
fallen out of favour because of the potential of damage to the keys and 
half-round bushings.

                         John

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