Lengthening the valve levers, in fact, is 1 of the 3 non-decorational reasons for soldering on the dimes. (The other 2 are restoring thickness to levers that have worn thin & giving the player a tactile reminder to keep the fingers arched instead of letting them flatten out on the levers.)
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I have short fingers. The keys are harder to reach on the Conn. It was almost impossible to snag that third key on the older models, but the newer ones have longer keys.
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