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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Calisto MT"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT";color:blue'>Roger,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Calisto MT"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT";color:blue'>Let me know what
you think after you’ve experimented with them a little bit. I say
experimented, because they can be moved around and sometimes moving them just a
fraction of an inch will take care of the problem. Sometimes only one on
a trichord is needed, sometimes two. <br>
They aren’t perfect, but they seem to allow more sustain. Perfect
would be a newly dressed capo. These are a convenient interim fix, as is
glue or cloth or buckskin. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Calisto MT"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT";color:blue'>And there is a
learning curve to installing them without dropping them in the action. A
little practice, perhaps with a cloth over the action in the beginning, so that
retrieving them is easier. After you get the hang of is, it is quite
simple and quick....like most of what we do.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT";color:blue'>Good luck,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT";color:blue'>Jeannie</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Calisto MT"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT";color:blue'>P.S. It
gives me great pleasure to learn that there is actually something out there
that maybe you haven’t tried yet!!! ;>)</span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:blue'>Jeannie Grassi, RPT<br>
Registered Piano Technician<br>
Island Piano Service<br>
Bainbridge Island, WA<br>
206-842-3721<br>
</span></font><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><a
href="mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net"><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Roger Jolly<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:51
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Pianotech List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Fw: v-bar/capo repair
(& bridges)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>At 02:28 PM 3/12/2006, you wrote:<br>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Hi Roger,<br>
Ive tried glue, but find the couplers far easier to use and I have better
success in blocking specific undesirable partials, with moving them around,
than the glue method. Have you tried the Pitchlock Couplers?<br>
jeannie<br>
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<font size=2 color=blue><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Jeannie
Grassi, RPT</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>HI Jeannie,<br>
I have seen them at the conventions, and dabbled around at some of the
samples. I have also meant to buy a kit to try for myself.<br>
Since you seem to be giving the nod, it will spur me into action :-)
. Guess some of my old habits die hard.<br>
Long winded way to say no.<br>
Thank's Roger</span></font></p>
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