<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:richard.ucci@att.net">richard.ucci@att.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:richard.ucci@att.net">richard.ucci@att.net</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div></div> <p>Thanks Jack,</p> <p>The dip did feel a tad shallow, measured it @ about 8mm,and checking was not great either.</p> <p>I'll use the tip of buckskin on the tails.</p> <p>RU/UP<br></p> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:JWyatt1492@aol.com" target="_blank"> JWyatt1492@aol.com</a>: -------------- <div><span class="e" id="q_1152aa5bce2f0697_1"><br><br><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div>Hello Richard,</div> <div> </div> <div>   You have a Wood-Brooks  90% action.</div> <div>This action was actually  invented by the Thayer </div> <div>Action Co.  just  before they  merged with</div> <div>Wood.-Brooks.</div> <div> </div> <div>  In the late 1940s it was introduced as a</div> <div>"GRAND ACTION"  in a vertical.  I was young </div> <div>and believed the  " Factory Experts "</div> <div> </div> <div>   Checking was a problem in some cases we </div> <div>put leather on the hammer tails, this worked very </div> <div>well.</div> <div> </div> <div>  To help this action it needs to be well lubricated </div> <div>and add a little key depth.</div> <div> </div> <div>   You will find a working model in the  Foundation</div> <div>Museum.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards</div> <div>Jack Wyatt</div></font><br><br><br> <div><font style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <hr style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> See what's new at <a title="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.aol.com/?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" target="_blank">AOL.com</a> and <a title="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" target="_blank"> Make AOL Your Homepage</a>.</font></div></span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div> <div>One caveat Rick, there really are no "modern" spinets, to my knowledge the last of them were made several years ago. The market niche/price point for them was taken over by the digital pianos and since they were a "loss leader" for the companies anyway, I'm certain they were happy to quit making them. </div> <div> </div> <div>I for one and I'm certain every other tech who's thought about asked the question, how could they manufacture a piano that required more parts, thus more assembly time, equaling more production costs and charge less for it? Yes they didn't use high quality parts but even lower quality parts and additional assembly equal higher overall cost! The only answer is there wasn't a big profit margin on spinets, probably barely a break even. The original concept wasn't to sell them, it was to advertise them at a lower cost then move the customer up to a console when they came in to look at the cheap piano. Unfortunately for us, many customers wouldn't move up! <br>Fortunatly for us, those days are gone and as the spinets die they won't be replaced! Huzzah!!</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. <br>- Denis Waitley<br><br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service <br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>