<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Ric,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the clarification.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/21/2006 9:41:23 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, ricbrek@broadpark.no writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dave..<BR><BR>I didnt say putting small weights on the keys... th= o you certainly could <BR>do that. I mentioned a variant of the idea Stanwood on= ce told me about <BR>(and has been related here a few times by others) of rai= sing the key <BR>about 0.2mm just adjacent and behind the balance rail pin.&nbs= p; I simply <BR>take a strip of gum paper (for shiming flanges) and run it alon= g the <BR>back side of the balance rail pins under the paper and cloth punchings.  <BR>This lowers the action weight ratio just a bit... sometimes enough for <BR>4-5 grams of DW suprisingly enough. <BR><BR>It se= ems to have no real significant affect on the distance ratio <BR>because the fulcrum of the key moves forward as usual once the key has <BR>traveled ab= out 3/4s of its stroke.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB<BR>...........<BR>Ric, I'm curio= us about your method of putting small weights on the  keys in<BR>front o= f the balance rail holes.  You said you used some kind of  tape?&n= bsp; <BR>Sorry,<BR>the previoius e-mail was the victim of a recent  mass-deletion...<BR><BR>Dave S.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<U><BR><A href="http://www.dstahlpiano.net/">http://dstahlpiano.net/</A></U></FONT><= /DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>