At 1:31 AM +0200 10/9/03, Richard Brekne wrote:
>Got to thinking a bit about all the various countebalancing schemes
>there are out there... and had a second gander at this whippen sort...
>signert Seigfried. Very cute... you could feasably balance a real
>pounder of a hammer on there if you wanted without any of the concerns
>of weight on the lower action. Interesting thought. Drawbacks ?? You
>call em.
Counterbalancing at the shank (though rare) is no different from
counterbalancing at the key. (They're both levers in the grand
action.) What force of gravity you may erase with counterbalancing
simply reappears as extra inertia. The same issues all over again.
Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
"No one builds the *perfect* piano, you can only remove the obstacles
to that perfection during the building."
...........LaRoy Edwards, Yamaha International Corp
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