<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">AND sounds like wood on wood...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>will</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 28, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Farrell wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">I think you are missing the point Gregor. Baldwin used a synthetic material call corfam </SPAN><EM style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; "><STRONG style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">instead</SPAN></STRONG></EM><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "> of leather on action parts around the period of 20 years ago. It's not leather that has gotten hard, it is the corfam that gets hard after time - no liquid or grease is needed to make it hard - hardens all on its own.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Terry Farrell</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">----- Original Message ----- </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">>>I'd put a second vote in for the butt leather (corfam) needing replacement. </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">>>If you watch the jack closely upon key return, you may find that the click </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">>>is the tip of the jack as it contacts the butt leather, which has hardened.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">> </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">> If it sounds like wood on wood, itīs the (missing) felt, not the leather. By </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">> the way: if the leather is hardened, itīs likely that anybody has applied </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">> any liquid or grease to it. Never do that on leather in a piano!</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">> </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">> Gregor</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>