Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-07-01 21:58
The last post seems a little naive to me. Those sorts of comments are exactly what I would expect to hear from a distributor of ANY product when they have a financial interest in the sale of that product.
Whenever we like, we can read raving reports on pretty well any product, no matter how poor the quality of that product is. It's called marketing!
Marketing is adept at telling only what it thinks the prospective buyer wants to hear in order to believe in the product. Integrity is revealing the WHOLE truth about the product, warts and all, but this is is incongruous with marketing.
For keys that are normally closed, the type of pad is not too fussy, although very deep seats do tend to cause buzzy sounds, and pads that are insecurely glued, or which have glue which softens in a warm place, are unreliable.
However a pad that is normally open is quite demanding in its design needs if it is to be reliable. It so happens that pads based on wool felt, when properly installed, fit these needs superbly.
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