<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>Greetings, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>          Us kids'll learn. This advice sounds soberingly correct.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank You, </DIV> <DIV>JUlia Gottschall</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/26/2006 4:25:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, ricb@pianostemmer.no writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>If you need more weight to your touch, there are easy and quick ways of <BR>going about it that do not compromise reasonably standard regulation.  <BR>True, you can fudge a little with damper timing.  But that window is <BR>very much smaller then what seems to be described below.  There is <BR>nothing beautiful about the touch created in an action which has damper <BR>timing set at the very beginning of the keystroke.  It wont take long <BR>before pianists start making pertainant<BR>remarks about it me thinks. Stick to basic regulation specs and solve <BR>your weight problems in appropriate fashions.  JALPOA.<BR><BR>RicB</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>