<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: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/30/2008 10:20:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, pianoguru@cox.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>you have to decide which set of compromises yield the best results</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Confusing the issue is the fact that pianists experience key travel differently. If two pianos are side by side, and the left one has .030 more key travel than the right one, it is a tossup which will be described as having the deeper dip. It depends on many things, including aftertouch, knuckle friction, punching hardness, voicing, keystick flex, bench height, more that I can't think of right now, and to a small degree, actual dip.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Bob D</FONT> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Start the year off right. <A title="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" href="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" target="_blank">Easy ways to stay in shape</A> in the new year. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>