<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Hi Jack,<BR> <BR>your idea was a good one! Did you plan to produce and sell these items? Are you angry now that Renner sells them?<BR> <BR>Gregor<br><br>------------------------<br>piano technician - tuner - dealer<br>Münster, Germany<br>www.weldert.de<br><br> <BR><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: jackhouweling@dccnet.com<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:01:07 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [pianotech] upright dampers regulating gauge<br><br> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"><style> .ExternalClass .ecxshape {;} </style><style> .ExternalClass p.ecxMsoNormal, .ExternalClass li.ecxMsoNormal, .ExternalClass div.ecxMsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} .ExternalClass a:link, .ExternalClass span.ecxMsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass a:visited, .ExternalClass span.ecxMsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass p {margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} .ExternalClass p.ecxMsoAcetate, .ExternalClass li.ecxMsoAcetate, .ExternalClass div.ecxMsoAcetate {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} .ExternalClass span.ecxEmailStyle18 {font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;} .ExternalClass span.ecxBalloonTextChar {font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} .ExternalClass .ecxMsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in;} .ExternalClass div.ecxWordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Hi Gregor,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>I was the one who came up with the damper timing gauge. Someone shamelessly took my idea </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>and is now selling them. They were selling at the convention in Salt Lake City at the Renner booth. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Jack Houweling</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></p><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gregor _<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 16, 2012 2:25 AM<br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] upright dampers regulating gauge</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Thank you, Barbara. I did not know that it was featured in the Journal.<br> <br>Gregor<br><br>------------------------<br>piano technician - tuner - dealer<br>Münster, Germany<br><a href="http://www.weldert.de" target="_blank">www.weldert.de</a><br><br> </span></p><div><div style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" align="center" SIZE="2" width="100%"></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:36:16 +0000<br>From: <a href="mailto:piano57@comcast.net">piano57@comcast.net</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [pianotech] upright dampers regulating gauge</span></p><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>hi Gregor,<br><br>If you get the Journal, that gauge is featured in the January '09 TT&T column.  Jack Houweling made it and handed it to me during the convention in Anaheim. I promptly forgot  and later  posted the picture and question.<br><br>Barbara Richmond, RPT<br>near Peoria, Illinois</span></p><div style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><hr id="ecxzwchr" align="center" SIZE="2" width="100%"></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>From: </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>"Gregor _" <karlkaputt@hotmail.com><br><b>To: </b>pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:48:53 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[pianotech] upright dampers regulating gauge</span></p><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Long time ago somebody posted in this list a photo of a regulating gauge. It was a transparent bar with magnets to fix on the strings. The thickness of that bar was that of the typical half blow of upright dampers. The original poster found that thing somewhere in his shop and could not remember where he got that from. That produced some funny answers ("you got that from me but forgot to pay the bill....").<br> <br>Anyway, does anybody have that picture? Is it a gauge that is sold by a piano supply?<br> <br>Gregor<br><br>------------------------<br>piano technician - tuner - dealer<br>Münster, Germany<br><a href="http://www.weldert.de" target="_blank">www.weldert.de</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></body> </html>