<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 7/23/01 4:55:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
<BR>davidlovepianos@earthlink.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I missed the beginning of this thread but you can always take a dremel and
<BR>take off a bit of the inside of the tail, if you've left enough wood in the
<BR>tailing process. You don't need much to give clearence so that the tails
<BR>don't click on the whippen flange. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">David Love</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
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<BR>David
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<BR>It's not hammer tail hitting the wippen flange. What Terry is talking about
<BR>is an Aeolian type wippen, that has a small metal bracket that goes over the
<BR>top of the balancier of the wippen. It is there to prevent the top of the
<BR>balancier to raise too much. (I don't understand why, or how it does that,
<BR>but this is supposedly why it is there.)
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<BR>Wim </FONT></HTML>