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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:24 PM, AlliedPianoCraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com">AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">If you're referring to Steinway, they called it "rolling the flies". I was taught to "roll the flies and watch for the "wink"". <G><br>
<br>Al Guecia<br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <<a href="mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu" target="_blank">hoffsoco@luther.edu</a>><br>Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 9:37 AM<br>
To: "Pianotech List" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: Grand Jacks
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Al, et al,<br><br>I get senior citizen discounts some places and I vaguely remember someone calling it "rolling the flies", but I seem to recall that the makers of the standard piano of the world called it "wink".<br>
;-}<br><br><br>AlliedPianoCraft wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm happy to see that there is another "old timer" on this list who uses the term "rolling the flies". I'm not alone.....I'm not alone....<br>
Al Guecia<br></blockquote><br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">*From:* Porritt, David <mailto:<a href="mailto:dporritt@mail.smu.edu" target="_blank">dporritt@mail.smu.edu</a>><br>
<br>Repetition lever set too low. What you did was the way to check the repetition lever height. Old timers call that "rolling the flies".<br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician<br>Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045<br>
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<div><br><br clear="all">My pianos are all clean and have no "flies" they "wink"</div>
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