Hi list... got done with that Seiler grand here a few days ago and started going through all the origional numbers I taken down and the more I looked at them the more I started scratching my head..... wondering what the fellow who put this action together coulda been thinking about. To begin with... this was like a really heavy hammered instrument with SW's nearly off Stanwoods charts. Frontweights were of course also very heavy. But what struck me was the uneveness.... I mean there was absolutely no hint of any method to the madness. I had neighboring Frontweight variations of 15 grams all over the place. The only hint of some pattern was that a lot of the black keys were heavier then the whites... but even this had plenty of exceptions. Unexpected rises in FW around key 55... and in the Bass... where there were these heavy whippen assist springs... again... all over the place frontweights ranging from 36 grams to 16.... It all makes you wonder just what on earth kind of priorities led to this mix match mess of weight distribution. One has to suppose it isnt sooooo haphazzard at a reasonable quality factory that they simply splatt the hammers on there and randomize how much counter balance there is. I will post the FW numbers tommorrow for anyone interested. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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