<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7>Yeah, but now you can't pet your cat without zinging sounds from your crusty fingers.<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR>Joshua 24:15<BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com<BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Received: 02/04/2007 4:37:34 AM<BR>Subject: Here's one NOBODY ever heard of<BR><BR><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV align=left>One time I was faced with the problem of some crusty treble damper felts in an upright that were causing that "zinging" sound when damping the strings. It wasn't a sever case, and the felts had to be sanded very lightly with the finest grit sandpaper out there. Being that I didn't have any, I used a bit on ingenuity by using my index finger as sandpaper - -the part of the finger that makes fingerprints. It seems that the ridges that form the fingerprints are just abrasive enough to do the job on a lightly-crusted damper felt!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jesse Gitnik  NYC</DIV> <DIV>Tech. since 1980</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>