Weighty Problem

[Gregory Torres]

Susan,

I can relate!   :-)

Regards,
Greg Torres

Susan Kline wrote:

> 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
> >
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