Dummy weights (was Re: Touchweight)

[Diane Hofstetter]

>Roger was pulling you leg, mostly.

I'm not so sure, he told me a long story about a blind tech who he was 
friends with there who, when he walked down the hall, he would try to fool 
him into thinking he was someone else.  Roger said he would try to change 
the way he walked or a variety of his behaviors and the guy would ALWAYS 
know it was him.

Anyhow, I tried leveling by feel and it's pretty accurate from key to key, 
but difficult to get a sense of the whole keyboard.


>From: nhunt@jagat.com (Newton Hunt)
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Dummy weights (was Re: Touchweight)
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:19:50 -0400
>
> > Roger Weisensteiner once told me how they really leveled keys in the
> > Kimball factory, the blind techs did it...by feel!
>
>Diane,
>
>Roger was pulling you leg, mostly.  They _did_ have a tuner there who
>could tune a piano without a mute.  Just needed a fork and a hammer.
>The noise level in that factory was unbelievable when you had eight or
>ten tuners going at it all day long.  He did happen to be blind.
>
>		Newton
>
>

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