Repetition Spring Sizes

Avery Todd ATodd@UH.EDU
Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:35:30 -0500


Ron,

>> Dear List,
>>    Does anyone have the sizes of repetition springs for a Steinway L,
>> 1920's vintage? Aren't they supposed to graduate from the bass to the
>> treble? This same piano I've been having all the trouble with has had
>> the rep. springs replaced: #1 is .033 and #88 is .036. This seems wrong
>> to me, anyway.  Shouldn't the bigger springs be in the bass?
>
>Yup! That's backwards -- but on which side of the keyboard are you
>standing when you're counting?  :-)  (Just a little dislexic humor
>there...from a dislexic person.)  Those numbers sound about right.  I
>think there are three wire sizes - .033, .035 and .037 right to left.

   Is that right to left from the front side or the back side? :-) Thanks.
I appreciate it.

Avery

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Moores School of Music
University of Houston
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