Thanks Ed, the way I (mis)understood what you said, I thought; "I don't get it!" dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/10/01 at 2:31 PM A440A@AOL.COM wrote: >Dave says explain this: ><<> This is ONE reason, I keep my balancier as high as I can. The other >>is simply to reduce the total amount of work that the pianist's fingers >must >>do in the course of a lot of play. When you consider that some of the >serious >>classical people spend four hours a day playing, the grams add up. > > Ah no, I stated things poorly there. When I said "balancier as high >as I >can" I was referring to its postion in escapement. I should have said, "I >keep my drop as high as I can". > I don't get as clean an escapement when the drop is holding the >balancier >BELOW let-off, I like them to be the same. > > >>>Do you mean that you don't want the jack contacting the knuckle at rest>> > No, I set the jacks by feeling the knuckle contact via the tender. >sorry for the phrasing. >Regards, >Ed _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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