<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3314" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Del - thanks for the note. I have read those before, but had fogotten all about them. Just read them again. Good stuff. Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093044919-01052008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Have him or her go back to the August and December 1996 Journals and read the two articles I wrote about energy losses in piano actions. In one of those articles I described how to improve (I realize the idea of "improving" anything to do with the piano is subjective so perhaps I should just say "change") these keys.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093044919-01052008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093044919-01052008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Basically I removed the so-called Accelerated Action "rockers" and replaced them with normal thin felt punchings. I then used the space gained to accommodate maple plates of equal thickness (4 mm comes to mind but you should check) glued to the bottom of the keys. Did wonders to "change" the performance of the action and the piano. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093044919-01052008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093044919-01052008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Del</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>