Bill Ballard wrote: > At 8:18 PM +0200 10/7/01, Richard Brekne wrote: > >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. > > First question. Is there any sign that at least some of the courses > of lead were laid out by pattern? You know... I looked for anysign of some pattern that might have been laid out... and I couldnt find anything that made me think there was any. Looking at the leads as they were installed...or looking at the actual frontweights... it just looked almost random really. Like I said the only thing was that mostly the black keys were significantly higher then the whites... but with more then just a few exceptions. I will jot down the FW's tommorrow so you can take a look at them for yourself. > Erratic FWs and pattern leading > might seem incompatible, but some of the middle courses could display > a pattern. Sometimes the course closet to the fulcrum is left up to > the worker doing the balancing, but most often it'll be the outside > course. I seem to remember that for some interval during the last > fifteen years, Baldwin was sending its smaller grands out with 100% > of their leading set by pattern. sheeshhh... well if this is the result of some pattern leading... I fail to see why they continue the practice. Whatever the reason was for this mess, it failed miserably to provide any semblance of consistant touchweight. > > > > Bill Ballard RPT > NH Chapter, P.T.G. > > "A man who tells the truth is bound to be found out sooner or later." > ...........Uncle Harry in "The Tailor of Panama" > +++++++++++++++++++++ -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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