BP wrote: > I have a 6' Stienway grand to regulate that has too heavy hammers. What > gram weight should the key be set at so I know how much felt to shave > off these hammers. The action is very very heavy with these hammers. > Bill > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Standard Steinway DW is 50 - 48 grams static downweight. The keys should lift at least 24 grams, and probably not more then 30 grams. How do you know that the hammers are too heavy ? As a first check measure both Down Weight and Up Weight on say 10 sample hammers, 5 white adn 5 black. Then get back to us with these figures and perhaps we can offer some good advice. The first peice of advice would have to be... dont go shaving of a bunch of felt from the hammers until there is more information about why there is a heavy touch. Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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