<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-= 1"> <META content="IncrediMail 1.0" name=GENERATOR>  </HEAD> <BODY style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 5px= 10px 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bgColor=#ffffff background="" scroll== yes ORGYPOS="0"> <TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100= %" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD id=INCREDITEXTREGION style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; CURSOR: auto; FONT-F= AMILY: Arial" width="100%"> <DIV> AF. there are four or five large screws.The heads are sec= ured by a round head screw overlapping the large screws head. T= his allows the rail to be raised or lowered at four or five places. = It is a very quick way to adjust the dip providing the keys are identical= dimensions.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The back rail pianos sometimes had front touch washers or a strip of= felt to stop the key from snapping in the middle.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I personally remove all the back rails if I am doing a major re= gulation. Plus, the rail is normally made of a good quality hard wood sui= table for all sorts of odd jobs that need a small piece of hard wood.</DI= V> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Some of the old German pianos had a rail that had to be cut off with= a circular saw and had no adjusting screws, so the adjustment was packin= g the felt where needed. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV>Robin Stevens ARPT</DIV> <DIV>South Australia</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><I>-------Original Message-------</I></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=receivestrings> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A href="m= ailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> 09/05/05 01:= 37:10</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mai= lto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: No fr= ont rail punchings either</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Typically 1890's German pianos. On a very hard blow this setup would= tend to</DIV> <DIV>break keys. With that back rail, I don't know how they regulated the= key</DIV> <DIV>dip.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>AF</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV>From: "Michael Gamble" <<A href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.c= o.uk">michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk</A>></DIV> <DIV>To: "'John Delmore'" <<A href="mailto:johndelmore@cox.net">john= delmore@cox.net</A>>; <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianote= ch@ptg.org</A>></DIV> <DIV>Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:26 AM</DIV> <DIV>Subject: RE: No front rail punchings either</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>> Hello List</DIV> <DIV>> If this contribution gets through without being hurled back as<= /DIV> <DIV>> "suspicious"</DIV> <DIV>> by "owner-pianotech-ptg etc" I have often come across upright p= ianos with</DIV> <DIV>> no</DIV> <DIV>> front rail punchings. Reason? There's a suspended rail over the= tail end</DIV> <DIV>> of</DIV> <DIV>> the keyframe. The keys hit this instead.</DIV> <DIV>> Regards from a Sunny early morning in The Village. Coffee Vicar= ?</DIV> <DIV>> Michael G.(UK)</DIV> <DIV>></DIV> <DIV>> -----Original Message-----</DIV> <DIV>> From: John Delmore [<A href="mailto:johndelmore@cox.net">mail= to:johndelmore@cox.net</A>]</DIV> <DIV>> Sent: 04 September 2005 03:13</DIV> <DIV>> To: <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><= /DIV> <DIV>> Subject: Balance rail punchings</DIV> <DIV>></DIV> <DIV>> Hi all:</DIV> <DIV>> Today, I got into the Brinkerhoff "lab" piano--just a thourough= cleaning</DIV> <DIV>> right now.  I noticed that there are no felt punching= on the balance rail:</DIV> <DIV>> is this common for circa 1925 pianos (sn 114743 if any of you k= ind folks</DIV> <DIV>> have an atlas handy)?  I'm guessing I shouldn't "add"= felts where I don't</DIV> <DIV>> find them.</DIV> <DIV>> John Delmore</DIV> <DIV>></DIV> <DIV>></DIV> <DIV>></DIV> <DIV>></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>_______________________________________________</DIV> <DIV>pianotech list info: <A href="http://www.ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/= pianotech">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></TD></TR> <TR> <TD id=INCREDIFOOTER width="100%"> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"></TD> <TD id=INCREDISOUND vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD> <TD id=INCREDIANIM vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></T= ABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>