Why do you need to "feel" let-off? (Asking honestly) Does the piano play OK? LANCE LAFARGUE, RPT LAFARGUE PIANO SERVICES New Orleans Chapter Mandeville, LA. _________________________________ II III II III II III II III II III II III II III II III II III II ----------------------------------------------------------- lafargue@iamerica.net "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." ---------- > From: Frank Cahill <fcahill@erols.com> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Kimball regulation > Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 7:37 PM > > I recently regulated a kimball vertical piano. The only problem I > encountered was with let-off. > > Normally, when the hammer reaches let-off, you can feel the jack as it > moves from under the hammer butt. On this piano, the normal feeling was > not there...only on a couple of key was it near normal. > > In the past, I've fixed this problem by increasing key height. I tried > it on this pinao, but it didn't help. I even put in a 0.018 punching. > No difference. > > What's going on? Could it be that the butt leather presents very little > friction to the butt or perhaps the edges of the jack are rounded off? > This piano is 20 yrs old or so, but the butt leather looks very good. > > This was a strange piano...couldn't find a serial number and several > keys had been trimmed down so that the width of the key around the > balance rail was about half of what they would normally be. > -- > > Frank Cahill > Associate Member, Piano Technicians Guild > Northern Va
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