<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> Susan...I find that after many tunings they get thinner and th= inner at the narrowest part of the tip. What happens with a very thin Pap= s wedge is if you hit a string directly, rather than between two strings = they will break. My thinnest wedge at the moment is .074 thou at the narr= owest point of the tip, while a new wedge is .101 thou.</DIV> <DIV>I would expect a wedge to last me about 5 years, although I must adm= it, me being careless is the cause of them breaking.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When I first started tuning (1960) all the wedges were made out of a= hard wood of some sort. An old tuner gave me a wedge made out of Rose wo= od which I keep, but not use, being a relic of the past.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Robin</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=IncrediOriginalMessage><I>-------Original Message-------</I></D= IV> <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> 07/02/05 12:= 53:27</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: Slipp= ing Paps wedge</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At 12:26 PM 7/2/2005 +0930, you wrote:</DIV> <DIV>>The thinnest is used from about A4 up and usually is the first t= o break.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hi, Robin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You've had Paps mutes break? After 26 years, I'm still using my orig= inal two.</DIV> <DIV>Perhaps yours are differently made?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Susan</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></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>