Cliff, Greg -- I've only had one experience with this, years ago. A very busy teacher owned an Acrosonic. She was the kind of person with a class of 40+ students, and had used the piano in her teaching for many years. She complained that one couldn't play softly on it, and there wasn't enough resistance. It certainly did sound bangy. I needled it quite heavily, and added jiffy weights (I think I used the nail type), two or three per note, till I had, I think, about 55 gm., a little more in the bass, tapering a little in the treble. It may have been beginner's luck, because I certainly didn't know what I was doing, but she was very pleased with the results. One definitely had much more control of volume, and the touch improved. I retain a vivid image of how incredibly much voicing middle C took: sure sign of a certain type of teaching piano is when middle C is twice as bright as anything around it. Anyone else? Susan --------------------------------------------------------------------- At 12:11 AM 3/12/98 -0800, you wrote: >Dear Lunytuner, > >How about weighting the keys? I think there is an article in the Journal >somewhere or maybe one of the resident list experts could shed more light on >the subject??? > >I have thought about it myself and have been asked the same question from >some of my clients. I think there used to be or might still be available >sets of weights that you can screw onto the top of the keys just behind the >key buttons, thus increasing the down weight. You can adjust by sliding the >weights forward or backward to achieve the desired resistance. I have never >done this to a whole set but I and other techs have used this technique for >helping keys return in cheaper pianos where the absence of key weights >causes this problem. Any body else? > >Regards, >Greg Torres > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "The best way to advertise is simply to be unusually good." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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