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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Tom, David, Ed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed, you are the first tech I ever met to bring this
up : setting the 10 (or so) last bass damper levers lower, so they start earlier
than the others with the pedal, in order to produce some "reverberation" effect
when playing the piano with half pedaling.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The fact is that I saw this arrangement a few times
on some old and untouched Bechstein pianos, and the effect is so pleasing (when
well used) that I do this routinely now on pre war pianos. Even more, I
would now taper the heighth of the last bass damper levers so that they lift one
after the other, starting with the lowest one. Unbelievable what different
colour shades you can achieve with this arrangement.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But I never thought that the key timing was also
changing. Of course this makes sense.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, how should we regulate this accurately ? Start
with the same thickness of key end felts, then shave a little felt and
check the key timing ? But how do we shave felt (this was always difficult
in my world).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stéphane Collin.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ilvey@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">David
Ilvedson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ed440@mindspring.com
href="mailto:ed440@mindspring.com">ed440@mindspring.com</A> ; <A
title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Mason AA key end felts</DIV>
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<P>Ed,</P>
<P>Could you clarify that...set lower to allow easy half
pedaling...<BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, CA
94044<BR><BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>