[CAUT] lighter touchweight

[Paul T Williams]

Hi Jeff,

There's a couple of things that come to mind to lighten the touch.  One 
thing you might look at on the hammers is how tapered or narrow they are. 
Felt weighs more than the wood, so some material could come off there. 
(remember 5:1 weight ratio) Or, you can take some wood off the sides of 
the shanks if they're big fatty's (you could also get new shanks with a 
longer flange to knuckle).

Another quicker thing to just make it "feel" lighter is delay the damper 
lift beyond the standard 1/2 blow distance.  I'm sure you'll get more 
suggestions, but that's what popped in my head first.

Best,

Paul

 



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Hi List,

I have a customer who wants his 1975 Baldwin 6'8" grand to feel 
lighter. It was virtually unused for many years and recently had an 
action reconditioning and regulation. It weighed off pretty 
reasonable. Downweight averaged low 50's to 50 and upweight averaged 
upper 20's to 30. Friction seemed low if anything. There isn't a lot 
of lead in the keys, as much as four weights in some of the lower 
bass. The hammers have enough "extra" material in the cove to remove 
some in an arc shape.  I'm wondering if doing only that would result 
in enough weight loss to make much difference. Has anyone done this 
procedure not in conjunction with leading, etc. and received good 
results?

Sorry if you already received this. I tried to send this message 
yesterday from a different source computer and don't know if it went 
out. :)

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Farris
Piano Technician
School of Music
UT Austin
mailto; jfarris at mail.utexas.edu
512-471-0158

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