[CAUT] lighter touchweight

[Alan McCoy]

Jeff,

Part of the reason for my last post is that there are many pianists who'd
kill for a piano with low 50s and high 20s. I'd be willing to bet that the
problem lies elsewhere. Too-early damper timing is often the culprit.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


> From: Jeff Farris <Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:33:53 -0500
> To: <CAUT at ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] lighter touchweight
> 
> 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