Alan, Exactly! I feel the same way, thank you. This piano feels good to me. He knows it is in range for most people. He plays a LOT, and is perhaps having some arthritis type symptoms. He just wants to know if it can be a little better. I thought trying to remove just a hair off the hammer tails might do it, but didn't want to go through the trouble and expense for him if it still wouldn't be better enough. I don't see how it couldn't improve a little. I might experiment with that and the shimming the back side of the balance rail. I'll be sure to re-check damper lift also. Jeff >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 -- Jeff Farris Piano Technician School of Music UT Austin mailto; jfarris at mail.utexas.edu 512-471-0158
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