Specs / Grand Regulation

[Antares]

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Richard Brekne ...
Thank you for your excellent explanation.
I do not disagree with you and respect your opinion very much.
Indeed... in the end we mean just the same.
How could it be any different after all those years?

Antares


 

Clark Sprague wrote: 
List:  Muchas Gracias to Antares, who said volumes for all of the
non-experts 
out there, who are looking to the "experts" for advice on how to improve our

skills.  We want to be as good as we can be, and we need your help.  Thanks!

Clark Sprague
Hmmm.. So we are going to be going back and forth a bit on this on. As
usual, we end up talking about several things at the same time so I'll try
to address the main points as I see them. 

Number 1. To all those "newbies" out there who are looking to this list for
help I have the following bit of advice. Start building yourself a library
of reference books. And above all, read them and re-read them. When you have
time and opportunity sit with an action and a good chapter on grand
regulation, and observe what happens as you step through the proceedure. Go
to any and all classes you can on any subject about tuning and regulating.
You may hear many things over and over, but there is always some new tidbit
or perspective that can be helpfull at these things. If you are in Canada
and America then find you nearest RPT and get some instruction, at least
from time to time. Not every RPT is a concert level tech, but all of them
are clever enough to be of great help to someone just starting out. 

All this being said, you must understand this. No amount of literature,
advice, or instruction is going to be of much help Until you begin to build
and understanding of how the action works. There are no shortcuts to
knowledge and experience. If you are going to get good, then it is you who
are going to be doing the getting. It is'nt always easy to avoid confusion,
and it can be frustrating to try and find and assimilate knowledge (more on
that below). But stay with it and you will get there. 

Number 2. With regard to the apparent difference of opinion between Antares
and myself (at least). We two probably are not all that far apart in the
end. At least previous discussions I have had with specs guys always end up
in us finding out that we agree on more then we disagree. I view this
buisness of grand regulations as being parted into two main schools. Which I
loosely refer to the specs guys, and the non-specs guys. One approach I see
a lot of techs, including RPT's use is to bring out their measuring devices,
and meticiously set each point of regulation to specs. Often enough the
result of such a method is that the action plays like a mac truck.
Regulating proceedures written down by factories rarely include setting
things like action spread, checking basic action geometry and the like. If
those are not very correct relative to the specs you are using, the specs
wont work. Where as the non - specs approach can always achieve a very
satisfactory result because its nature is basically to accept the present
geometry for what it is, and make it work. This can be of course misused
too. One can take too many things for granted for sure. In the end tho the
best regulations are a result of a kind of synthesis of these two approaches
and rely on a well developed understanding of how the action works. Either
way.. understanding is the key. 

One other point.. Books.. I have always been amazed by how difficult it is
to find good, easy to review and procur, technical books. There are few in
print. So a few points of advice. The easiest one is to get ahold of is the
Reblitz book, which is a good book, but is short and in the end only one
book. Get it tho if you dont have it. Secondly start collecting action
regulating proceedures available for just about every make of grand.
Dealerships often enough have them laying around or can order them. Third go
to the conventions you can and take care of every piece of literature you
get as part of a class, or get just handed to you. Lastly there are a few
internet related sites, like Randi Potters. I have no knowledge of the
quality of his material, but plenty of folks over there do, talk to them and
get their recommendations about what books or videos to buy. And as a
suggestion to the PTG, It would be nice of you guys to include a page on
your site that lists every book relative to piano work available and to work
at developing this page as a resource center for new and old techs alike.
Just my opinion. 

I doooo hope this clears up things a bit. 

Richard Brekne 


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