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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Certainly heed Roger Jolly's advice and establish
with certainty whether it can go as it is with the lead.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But, if you find that the lead is a problem, I've
one idea anyway - and it perhaps is the easiest - would be to have someone like
David Stanwood balance the action. Set the action up with wippen assist springs
- those will eliminate much of the lead/weight needed in the keys. Then with the
reduced weight needs, I'm sure one could successfully weigh off the keys using
steel/brass/whatever, and as these other metals are quite a bit less <FONT
face=Arial size=2>malleable than lead, you would likely have to epoxy them in
place - that's why it would be REALLY smart to do a nice action balancing job -
because the key weighing would be somewhat permanent (more permanent than
traditional leading).</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You could skip the balancing thing and just replace
the lead with an equal weight of brass (placed so as not to change the balance),
but it sure seems to me that proper balancing would be in order with this
permanent-type of modification.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And I believe someone has a retro-fit magnetic
system available, but I don't know much about it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I am posting to the list for the first time, so I would like to introduce
myself.</DIV>
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<DIV>My name is Scott Nelson and I am a member of the Detroit-Windsor
Chapter.I have been tuning pianos for about 20 years now and have been an RPT
for 12.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have a client with a Baldwin SF-10 that wants to ship the piano to
Poland. As I understand it, lead is supposed to be phased out of keys by the
end of the year in the European Union. </DIV>
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<DIV>My question is whether this applies only to new instruments and/or
imported instruments. If this is not the case, what suggestions do you have
for a substitute material to be used for weigh-off? Are there any composites
that would suffice? What prototype systems other than the Petrof magnet setup
are currently being developed?</DIV>
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<DIV>I appreciate any knowledge or insight into this question.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV>Scott Nelson, RPT</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>