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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Install new and <u>smaller </u>ones. It’s faster, easier, better result, not that much more money (good leather is expensive) and if you ever put in a new Renner underlever tray you’ll be glad you did. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.davidlovepianos.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Skolnik<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> Larry Fisher RPT; pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Steinway back checks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Larry -<br>A follow-up thought -<br>Al may be right about not needing clamping, but I may be a little less confident without some type of holding. Your picture amply illustrates the issues of wire condition (looking pretty twisted) and various felt profiles, which can have <br>a significant effect on how check functions with a particular tail shape.<br><br>David Skolnik<br>Hasitngs on Hudson, NY<br><br>At 12:25 AM 9/12/2012, you wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I’m including an image of the original back check. As you can see, the back check head quite large. New ones (three different types shown) have a totally different physical dimension to the point that it’s beginning to look like it would be faster to simply recover the existing back check heads.<br> <br>If I were to go that route ........... and aside from getting the grain of the leather in the right direction ............ is it critical to get the leather at a consistent tightness to get some reasonable checking effect?? <br> <br>A procedure involving a clothes pin has been suggested. Comments??<br> <br><img width=644 height=484 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD90B8.9A2FF9B0" alt=P9111268a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>