Front rail felt

[Yardbird47@aol.com]

How to deal with the compressiveness of front rail punchings, during the
setting of dip, I presume? Back when I wass setting dip with a key leveling
stick, I moved the key leveling weights from in front of the backchecks to up
where the finger touches the key. The dipping was done with a constant
pressure on the FRPs.
Now that I set key dip by aftertouch at the end of a regulation, it's all a
matter of touch anyway. I start with one benchmark afterouch, and make sure
that the pressure to push the other eighty-seven through the 50mil guage
punching is constant. Firm or soft, feel is feel.
If you can define the dip and keep it consistent, then you can base other
aspects of the regulation on it. (Such as drop, sostenuto, and damper stop
rail.....)

Bill Ballard, RPT           "A jester unemployed is nobody's fool"

NH Chapt, PTG                    Danyy Kaye in "The Court Jester"