<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> are at exactly the same elevation off the ...which brings to mind this question:  You are regulating a piano and the keys are at an appropriate height and close to level (maybe one pass until they are as level--under a straightedge--as is humanly possibly).  HOWEVER, A0 is a bit higher (or lower, for that matter) than C8, indicating that the keyboard is slightly tilted from one end to the other.  Do you have any acceptable tolerance for this at all? A little? A lot?  At what point would you bite the bullet and do a lot more key leveling in the interest of having the keyboard "perfectly level" from one end to the other (meaning A0 and C8 are the same elevation above the keybed, and everything in between them is, of course, level as well)?<br> <br> Clear as mud?<br> <br> Alan Eder<br> </font></div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Jessica Masse <ebonyandivory@on.aibn.com><br> To: pianotech@ptg.org<br> Sent: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 3:11 pm<br> Subject: RE: NOW YOUNG TECH<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313"> <style> @#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;}@#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 font-face {font-family:"@SimSun"; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;} #AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 p.MsoNormal,#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 li.MsoNormal,#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 a:link,#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;}#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 a:visited,#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;}#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 p.MsoAutoSig,#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 li.MsoAutoSig,#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 div.MsoAutoSig {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 span.EmailStyle17 {font-family:Arial; color:windowtext;}@#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;}#AOLMsgPart_2_03afeaa7-9ba6-4509-a38f-53a5e2f8d313 div.Section1 {page:Section1;}</style> <div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi Alicia,  </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Some people on the list are a bit more serious.  But if you’re looking for help with your piano that fell, I’m sure with a few photos this list could help you.</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Because you are a pianists and this is what made me interested when I started my business at your age.  I’d like to know what you would think about playing a 7 foot grand piano in a church with a bowled out floor?  The piano I have been talking about sits at about a 1& a half inch drop from the treble with the bass end lower.  The bench also tilts at about the same angle and leans in a bit towards the piano.  </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The piano had been on leveled stage and now sits on the curved floor.  I don’t like the way it feels to play it and I think in time it will wear the parts out more on one side. (key bushings this can happen anyway from the angle the wood is cut,  and also the damper guide bushings, and hammer shank centres).</span></font></div> <div class="MsoAutoSig"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoAutoSig"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jessica Masse</span></font></div> <div class="MsoAutoSig"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">RPT Piano Technicians Guild</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div> </div> </div>  <div id='u8CA94CCCF1EA468-1418-1C2A' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Stay informed, get connected and more <A title="http://mobile.aol.com/productOverview.jsp?productOverview=aol-mobile-overview&?&ncid=aolmbd00030000000139" href="http://mobile.aol.com/productOverview.jsp?productOverview=aol-mobile-overview&?&ncid=aolmbd00030000000139" target="_blank">with AOL on your phone</A>.</FONT> </div>