---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 09:33 PM 5/13/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Roger, Ed, and Ron > >Ron Koval wrote: >>Cool clue, ric! >Grin... you liked that one eh ? The other one I was going to give was >If you block the hammer from rising and put pressure on the key the >neighboring hammers all drop significantly. Sounds like the balance rail is rolling. Check to see that it is well secured to the cross slats. check to see if the slats flex. If the mortice cut has been badly done made. It may be the cause of the problem. >> >>So it seems that the bedding must be good if you don't get the same symptom >>with the hammer out of the equation..... >I''ve checked and rechecked the bedding on this instrument 5 or 6 times. >Darned things been driving me crazy :) Dags hold the back rail firm, front >rail is as flat as you ever could want.... no.. its not the bedding. The movement has to be balance rail related, unless the frame is riding on the top of the unacorda arm. Gee I would love to see this piano. Regards Roger > >>So, my guess would have to be an >>over-flexable hammer rail, if you get movement of key neighbors with the >>hammer in the mix. >Thats my guess as well, and you can see the thing bending. I checked on >some other pianos and found that a Young Chang does nearly the same when >you hold the hammer down... a bit stiffer tho... and it doesnt have the >same problem with play. A Bohemia and my giant Petrof dont respond this >way at all. Hold the hammer in place and press the key and all is dead >stable... sigh.. and just when I was beginning to hate Petrofs again.. :) > >Question is... assuming its the hammer rail... what to do about it ? Any >good suggestions ? >>Or, does the hammer provide enough resistance to make >>the balance rail move? I guess it would depend if the neighbor hammers move >>up, or down on strong blows. >Well.. you cant see that on a hard blow...happens too fast...all you see >is lots of movment. But blocking the hammer and pressing the key seems to >be the giveaway.. or what ? >>Ron Koval >> >> > >Cheers > >RicB > >-- >Richard Brekne >RPT, N.P.T.F. >UiB, Bergen, Norway ><mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no>mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no >http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html ><http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html>http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html > > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/11/e8/c8/7d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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