This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Re: heavy Steinway action ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Andersen=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: June 03, 2003 11:25 AM Subject: Re: heavy Steinway action Wim, don't be naive, with all due respect. Steinway has been riding = on their iconic name, making from average to below average to truly = horrible actions for four decades or more. The wierd paradox, the real = head-scratcher, is what our friend Mr. Brekne said in a post earlier = today----that, in truth, the Hamburg Steinway factory do the best job in = the world at making consistently fine & balanced actions. This has always seemed, to me, the definition of insanity and = laziness, and hubris, and contempt for the American player. It would be relatively easy for NY to adopt the Hamburg protocols, or = some "New York-ized" version of them, but they don't. All of this reminds of the Model M I encountered early in the 1970s. The = owner, a woman in her 60s was complaining of the action's "heavy" touch. = Several technicians from the store selling the piano had already been = out to look at the piano and could find nothing wrong. After looking at = the piano myself and measuring key downweight--a fairly uniform 52 to 48 = grams, bass to treble--I spent a bit of time talking with the owner. = Seems she only had a problem when she was playing fast passages with = lots of quick repetition. On pulling the action I discovered 9 leads in = the bass keys decreasing to three or four in the treble. On calling the = factory I was informed that since the downweight was dead on factory = specs there was "nothing they could do because there is not problem." = That was my baptism into action geometry. Moving the stack, re-hanging = the hammers and relocating the capstans pretty much took care of the = non-problem. And this on a one or two year old piano. Sigh. Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/69/30/af/e2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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