<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Californian = FB"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Californian = FB";color:blue'>Michael,</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Californian = FB"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Californian = FB";color:blue'>Brooks Ltd. Has just what you need.  </span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Californian = FB"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Californian = FB";color:blue'>jeannie</span></font></p> <p><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span = style='font-size:10.0pt; color:blue'>Jeannie Grassi, RPT<br> Registered Piano Technician<br> Island Piano Service<br> Bainbridge Island, WA<br> 206-842-3721<br> </span></font><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><a href="mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net"><font size=2><span = style='font-size:10.0pt'>mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net</span></font></a= ></span></font></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Californian = FB"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Californian = FB";color:blue'> </span></font></p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center = style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=3 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </span></font></div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 = face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</spa= n></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span = style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Michael Spalding<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February = 10, 2005 5:29 AM<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Pianotech<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> ARGHH! = Knabes*&^ just venting</span></font></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 = face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'>List,</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'>Well, the = post-holiday lull seemed like a good oppportunity to begin the rebuild of the small = Knabe grand I acquired last year.  A colleague whose rebuilding business = is 90% S&S and Mason warned me that Knabes can be a pain.  I'm = beginning to see what he meant, and all I've tried to do so far is install the new shanks/flanges.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'> - First, = run them through the table saw to shorten the flange length so they'll fit inside = the lip on the rail.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'> - Scare up = an extra set of washers, because the counterbore is 2 washers deep and the screw = head diameter is too large to sit inside the counterbore.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'> - Discover = that the spacing in the bass section is so close that there's no room between = flanges for spacing, and the knuckles are rubbing on each other.  Ttake = them all off again, measure every flange to select the narrowest 25,  and = run them through the router table on the modified hammer tapering jig to shave = 1/2 mm off the width of the knuckles.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'>what's = next??</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'>thanks for = listening, I feel better now.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'>Mike</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'>Michael = Spalding</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'><a href="mailto:spalding48@earthlink.net">spalding48@earthlink.net</a></sp= an></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 = face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans = Serif"'> </span></font></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>