<!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 5.50.4915.500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed; even if it were the best thing in = the world, I wouldn't use graphite on the keybed or keyframe, and here's why; I may = not always be the tech working on this piano. Somebody else comes in, pulls = the action, and not finding any better place to put it, places it right down = on their brand new deep plush carpet which is ssoooooooo white that they = have asked the poor SOB to take off his shoes as he's coming in................</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">   Greetings, <BR>   I would like to respectfully offer two = examples for consideration.  <BR>Graphite is unsurpassed in my experience = for the una corda spring contant <BR>points and the balance glide dowel = inserts in the keybed.  I have used <BR>others, and many work, but none seem as = durable as burnished <BR>graphite,especially if clean grain has been opened = prior to application. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>