<!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 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Richard,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As you know,some jazz players also = pluck the strings sometimes (although we always tell them not to touch the strings = without gloves....grrrrrr), and someday we had problems on one of our = grands that we rent for concerts because the last guy who played the piano = (Bill Carrothers) plucked the strings and he bent some dampers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We moved the piano from the place = where the "plucking guy" performed to another concert hall, and we did not = check that everything was in place before moving it tp the next place.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So as I began to tune the piano for the = concert,I remarked the problems and I had to put off the action, and spend a = lot of time on damper regulation in bad conditions (very little = light...).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The dampers regulation was in really = bad shape.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The piano was a Kawai RX-2 so it has a = regular damper lever configuration..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I fear that sometimes pianists are not = really aware of what they do on the piano and on the damage they can make on such = fragile action parts.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quentin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>