Installing Key End Felt

John Delacour JD at Pianomaker.co.uk
Sun Aug 6 17:37:04 MDT 2006


At 2:47 pm -0700 6/8/06, Joseph Garrett wrote:

>It just dawned on me: No one has mentioned the fact that the key end 
>felt should only be glued in the back 1/2 of the "mortise"/"notch". 
>i.e. in the area closest to the front of the action. Otherwise the 
>darn stuff will be noisy.

Never seen such a thing.  How can 1/4" firm felt be noisy?  Anyway if 
you did it like that they'd wobble all over the place when you used 
the shift pedal with the note down.

JD



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