Aftertouch Question???

[Susan Kline]

At 12:32 PM 3/29/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>JIMRPT wrote:
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>> List;
>>  Within this thread on after touch there is a related question that one
needs
>> to know the answer to, or at least have a strong opinion  as to the answer.
>> :-)
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>> Ques: as measured from the front of the keys, one sharp and one natural,
each
>> hammer being even with each other, and each point of let off being the
same,
>> and dip being the same, and aftertouch being the same. What is the
>> realtionship of key travel between sharp and natural keys to hammer
movement?
>> Asked another way, If every thing is the same which hammer will move
farther?
>> Jim Bryant (FL)
>> p.s. Don't answer too quickly.
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>The easy answer is that, at the capstan centerline, the key travel of both
will be the
>same. As will the hammer travel.
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>And, indeed, this is how I usually start setting up a keyset.
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>Del
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Hi, Del, Jim

I don't understand this. 

If everything else is equal, and >>keydip is the same<<, then, picturing
the key as if it were a teeter-totter, wouldn't the sharp, moving the same
distance at the front as the natural, but closer to the fulcrum, move the
capstan higher?

That is to say, the back part of the lever being equal, the front part
being shorter would travel a greater number of degrees of arc in order to
cover the same distance as the natural? But the rear part of the lever
being equal, the greater arc would lift the capstan further?

Please send enlightenment to this little patch of Oregon woods ....
(thankee Klinely ...)

Susan
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