At 22:22 6/15/2003 +0200, you wrote: >here, we don't call that a piano. We call that a home trainer. > >Stéphane. > Hmmm. A home trainer on three wheels - that would be a tricycle, n'est-ce pas? >From: "Richard Strang" <rstrang@pa.inter.net> > >| I just have to tell my story about heavy playing pianos. I tune and service >| a Yamaha LU-90 owned by a concert pianist who is also a piano teacher here >| in Panama. He had me install a total of 3 1/2 lead weights ON EACH KEY to >| make it play as heavy as possible. The 1/2 weight is mounted on the end of >| the key. He advocates weighting the keys so that he will never run into a >| piano thats hard to play. The touch weight is twice that of a Steinway D. He >| must have pretty strong fingers by now. The head piano professor here has had wrist and finger joint problems and is VERY sensitive to a heavy touch. I've been on a crusade to reweigh almost every grand at the school. ¡¡WARNING!! - Steinway bashing ahead... I get very frustrated and start to think impure thoughts when the official replacement $&$ hammers/parts come in about ten times as heavy as the official $&$ hammers/parts just taken off and I have to re-reweight the keys and relocate capstans to adapt. "Oh, didn't we warn you......?" The next time I need parts for $&$ pianos, I'll do just like they do - get them from Renner. Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076 - Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
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