<!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 6.00.6000.16705" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Alan, Steinway did refer to the jack as the "fly", but we always referred to the knuckle as the knuckle. Maybe they called it a roller in the very early years, but we always called it the knuckle in the 60's and 70's.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al Guecia</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 18, 2008 5:40 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Grand Jacks</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Doesn't Steinway, in their own particular dialect of piano-ese, call what others refer to as the jack, the "fly," and what others refer to as the knuckle, the "roller"?<BR><BR>Alan Eder<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Jim Moy <<A href="mailto:jim@jimmoy.com">jim@jimmoy.com</A>><BR>To: Pianotech List <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR>Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 2:10 pm<BR>Subject: Re: Grand Jacks<BR><BR> <DIV id=AOLMsgPart_0_1a8aa19c-3dd3-4955-8055-e423f3400de9 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:30 AM, AlliedPianoCraft<BR> <<A href="mailto:AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com">AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR> > I'm happy to see that there is another "old timer" on this list who uses the<BR> > term "rolling the flies". I'm not alone.....I'm not alone....<BR> <BR> Where did that expression come from anyway?<BR> </TT></PRE></DIV> <DIV class=aol_ad_footer id=u8CACF92248D6804-E44-17EA><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> <A title=http://mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=mpqmap00050000000010 href="http://mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=mpqmap00050000000010" target=_blank>Get the MapQuest Toolbar</A>. Directions, Traffic, Gas Prices & More!</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>