<!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 6.00.6000.16735" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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"><B>From:</B> <A title=toddpianoworks@att.net href="mailto:toddpianoworks@att.net">Matthew Todd</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:55 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Jack Flanges</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top>Yeah, I thought about the damper spoons after I sent the e-mail. Would A0 and A#0 work?<BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matthew,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry if this question has already been answered but I may have missed some of our friends contributions.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NO. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The spoons are angled in the opposite direction to engage the bass damper levers and won't line up with the levers in the tenor-treble.You will have to bend -regulate  them to work and  bend them back when you send them back home so</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>forget the swapping parts technique (Actually I'll admit to the parts swap myself on rare occasions )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    I'll respectfully suggest that the same effort that you put into your questions when applied to some creative thinking  will lead to a better understanding of the piano mechanism and logical solutions to these vexing little problems.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>See it ,find a way ,fix it and move on. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    I'm not bashing you here my Bro ---- trust yourself and take a few chances. After all what do you have to lose? If a repair fails, try something else. That's where the fun lies.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom  "MacGyver" Driscoll</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>