<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bgColor=#ffffff>Thanks for the pictures...quite a difference...also check that 1st treble note damper on your Steinway...it's a little off center...;-]   <BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Barbara Richmond" <PIANO57@INSIGHTBB.COM><BR>To: Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 3/6/2006 9:54:39 AM<BR>Subject: v-bar/capo repair (filing compared)<BR><BR> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have considered all my options and have decided to go in prepared for all of them.  Ric Brekne encouraged me to have another go at the filing (a la Ed McMorrow's suggested shape).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Last night I remembered that Ed actually filed the capo on MY piano.  (Now there's a  story!  He was using my piano for a seminar class.  The action stack to my piano ended up getting lost by the airline, so it missed the seminar but eventually was found in Europe.  That's the condensed version.) </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, if you are interested, here are two pictures to compare (if you can).  001 is the Seiler.  002 is my Steinway which has the McMorrow v-shape.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>