A not so boring, boring dilemma

[Jon Page]

At 12:20 AM 4/12/2002 -0700, you wrote: <snip>
>I am curious what you did about the "Viennese" style of weighting the keys.
>The original BW's were quite high due to very sparse leading and very low
>front weights throughout.  Though somewhat uneven, the low inertia seemed to
>compensate for the high BW as the action did not feel particularly heavy.
>After putting on a heavier hammer (I used an Abel concert grand hammer and
>set the SW curve from just under 12 g down to about 6), I modified the
>weigh-off to contemporary standard.  Since the action had relatively low
>friction, I set the BW at 38 to keep the DW in the 51-47 range.

Since the piano here was not in a performance venue, I did not put on 
heavier hammers.
The originals ranged from 9 to 5, I installed 10 to 5; so the BW wasn't 
drastically affected.






Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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