Are pianists idiots or not ??.... really not the kind of question I think we should be addressing. They are most certainly human like all the rest of us... and many of the choices the make are influenced by human frailties to be sure. But they have a good sense in some intuitive way of what they want..... Case in point. One of the worlds finest classical pianists hails from here, and recently complained about a 20 year old D beginning to feel a bit unpredictable and sluggish... difficult repetition. This instrument had a new set of hammers installed... factory ready glued and pre-voiced sort just 7 years ago and has seen only moderate use since. Here is what I found. Very worn key bushings with lots of side friction due to gunk buildup on the keypins and bushing felt. And the key leading did not match the hammers at all. Front Weight in the entire treble section were extremely high... 6-14 grams above Stanwoods maximums. A 5.7 Stanwood ratio with roughly a top medium set of Strikeweights. The below table will tell you quite a bit.... The pianist called it pretty well if you ask me... Cheers RicB > Key UW DW > 1 33 52 > 2 32 50 > 3 26 48 > 4 30 50 > 5 24 44 > 6 24 40 > 7 22 39 > 8 21 39 > 9 15 35 > 10 23 39 > 11 19 35 > 12 20 36 > 13 25 39 > 14 20 30 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070507/469393db/attachment.html
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