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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Sounds like Paul has it. Thanks for
bringing that up, Paul. Probably should have been our first thought since
the piano had been dropped.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">If the keybed was cracked and moved during
the fall, that's where you need to start. The keybed position must be
correct before you go fooling with voicing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Why did you "remove" the strings to fix the
coils? Just to apply DAG? Many rebuilders feel that DAG is utterly
unnecessary excepting if you are trying to cover up an ugly bridge cap.
Putting DAG on the bridge had no effect on the richness of tone. It is
either psychoacoustic effects you are experiencing, or whatever changes
the strings went through in the removal/re-installation
process.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">William R. Monroe</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">The keybed however shifted drastically and
cracked, my guess is I will have to make a new one which I'm looking foreward
to doing. the action brackets seem to be ok but everything is out of order
since the fall!<BR>Since the crack of keybed "shift" doesnt work too well
either, yeah this piano has a grand shift to mute the sound. I noticed one
interesting thing about the tone Paul, I took off all the strings to correct
the coils, and while thery were off, I applied a layer of DAG on it (the
bridge was naked before), and that made the tone so much richer. Any
thoughts?<BR> <BR>Alicia<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>