No Power Yamaha revisited

Avery Todd avery@ev1.net
Thu, 22 May 2003 15:51:50 -0500


Hi Richard,

I don't have the answer but I do have a story! :-)

Back several years ago, I had to do a regulation on a Yamaha 9' that
had been sent in for a Yamaha artist recital (Frederic Chiu). It'd
been messed up by "someone" and was in terrible shape.

I did it the usual way, like you mention below and everything worked
great and he loved it. Shortly after that, a tech that used to work for
Yamaha came to Houston and in the store, redid everything I'd done
because evidently, Yamaha sets the glides that way on purpose. He said
he was trying to get the "method" written about but so far, it hasn't
been done, as far as I know. I don't know what the secret is but until
I know differently, I'll continue to set the glide bolts in the "usual"
way. It's worked that way for many pianos for many years!

Avery

>What I dont get is why the Balance Rail needs to be elevated so much.
>And how are we supposed to determine the proper balance rail height to
>begin with ? I was always told that glide bolts need to just make
>contact with the key bed... not to lift the whole darn middle of the key
>frame up.
>
>Explainations please ?
>
>RicB
>
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