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Hello to all.  About two years ago I restored a Sinclair & Sons
double-valve player action.  Everything little thing was replaced
except the zephyr skin leather of the primary valve pouch.

Shame on me, but to be honest, at that precise moment I didn't have
that material.  The zephyr skin was very tight and okay then, the
player was very responsive in pianissimos, staccatos and so on.

Well, I have the piano here in my atelier to do now the case, and my
conscience told me to finish what I let go unfinished.  I made the
primary pouches, but I used not zephyr skin but very thin regular
brown-orange pouch leather.

What a mistake!  I have lots of valves that are 'lazy'; the action
stopped being as responsive as it formerly was.

All my experience with zephyr leather relates to 'pillow' pouches of
the Hupfeld action type; I never had problems with those.  This is the
first time that this happens to me.  Any comments are welcome.

Yours
Paul Saint-Dennis
France