<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As always with any regulation one must = consider all items that affect the final result. You must also take into account the = balance rail hammer rest rail and the felt that holds the rail in place, as all = of these felts change as well.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Goss</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:carpthos@televiso.com" = title=carpthos@televiso.com>Thos. D. Carpenter</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>list PTG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 24, = 2000 11:14 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> let-off</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800000 face="DomCasual BT" size=5>Dear = illutrious list,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800000 face="DomCasual BT" = size=5>    If, as the let-off button felt compacts...the let-off moves closer to the = string, do we continuously find, on instruments where let-off regulation has been = neglected, that the let-off has moved further from the = string?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800000 face="DomCasual BT" size=5>Tom = Carpenter, associate</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>