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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Hello all<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Having just returned from <st1:country-region =
w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>,
Lake Garda (wonderful – included <st1:City =
w:st="on">Verona</st1:City>
and Venezia) and <st1:City w:st="on">Norfolk</st1:City> (delightful =
– I can
also gaze out at the North Sea and wave to Andre Oorebeek in <st1:City =
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Holland</st1:place></st1:City>) I am back in harness and =
doing my
school rounds of 8-9 pianos per day. Meanwhile on the workshop front =
I’ve
got to the stage in my S&S’A’ when all the new strings =
are on
and now tensioned up to about a M3 flat. I’m stripping the old =
damper
felts, with their magenta felt backing, and contemplating the best =
method of
trimming the new damper felts to the required oblique angle. Any ideas =
out
there? You know what happens if you don’t approach this right =
– you
get a nasty wiggly un-acceptable cut. S&S did/does it without =
this…
so how is it done?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Regards from a sunny <st1:country-region =
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sussex</st1:place></st1:country-region> =
village<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Michael G.(UK)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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