Lighten Touch

Bill Ballard yardbird@pop.vermontel.net
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:20:25 -0400


At 4:01 PM -0700 8/15/01, Ed Carwithen wrote:
>   I am to work on a Kurtzman Grand Friday.  Clean, regulate, repair 
>lyre braces.  Owner asked if I could make the touch any lighter.  I 
>said     "Sure, No Problem!!!!"
>
>Ok,      now how do I do that?  The dampers are already lifting at 
>about half blow.  It does seem somewhat sluggish.  Please give me 
>your best advice...

You could start with screwing some jiffy weights on the undersides of 
the keys, and then maybe some clear nail polish on the hammers. If 
that doesn't work, check with us again.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"A jester unemployed is nobody's fool."
     ...........Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester"
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