<!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 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Inertia might become troublesome at some point.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Pretty neat idea though. You could even put your = counterweight on a slide or a screw - adjust touchweight at will!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Newtonburg</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 08, = 2003 7:31 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Counterbalancing = schemes</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Hi folks <P>Got to thinking a bit about all the various countebalancing schemes = there are out there... and had a second gander at this whippen sort... = signert Seigfried.  Very cute... you could feasably balance a real = pounder of a hammer on there if you wanted without any of the concerns of weight on = the lower action. Interesting thought. Drawbacks ?? You call em. = <BR>  <P><IMG height=310 = src="cid:02d101c38e11$634b18c0$b9b52341@youro0kwkw9jwc" width=586> <BR>  <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>UiB, Bergen, Norway = <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> = <BR><A = href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broad= park.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <BR><A = href="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib= .no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A> <BR>  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>