Touch Weight changes

[Farrell]

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FWIW, I own a 10 year old Boston 178 cm. It has a very nice action whose =
properties remain quite constant. The action is very much like any good =
performing Yamaha or Kawai.

Terry Farrell

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From: "Carol Beigel" <crbrpt@bellatlantic.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: Touch Weight changes


> It never occured to me to measure the upweight.  I assume you do this =
in
> reverse - put damper pedal down, put a weight on the key, and see how =
much
> weight is sitting on the key as it begins to rise?
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> Are you saying, that by removing friction (cleaning pins, using teflon
> powder on knuckes, protech on hammer lever flanges) to adjust the
> downweight, that if the ratio of upweight to downweight is not =
correct, then
> the problem will reoccur when the friction returns?
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> This is a Boston grand action on a 7 foot piano - only two years old.  =
I
> thought these things were designed by Steinway and built by Kawai and
> supposed to be good.  Am I still missing something here?  Thanks for =
the
> responses.
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> Carol Beigel
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