Lost motion compensator

[gordon stelter]

Michael,
     He's probably referring to the rod that lifts the
backs of the wippens in conjunction with the hammer
rail moving forward on "soft pedal" depression, to
keep the jack tips close to the hammer butts.
     Thump

--- Michael Gamble <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hello Robert Scott
> In saying that "I do not use the facility offered me
> by my TLA" equivalent
> to denying that the earth is round? It has the
> facility. I do not use it. If
> my tuning is without 8ve stretching then that is
> what was dictated by the
> piano. No two pianos are the same. I have analysed
> the attributes of the
> frequencies of all the notes on the piano and have
> come to the
> incontrovertible conclusion that.... when a piano
> sounds in tune... then
> it's IN TUNE!!! My TLA just helps me start it off
> right. Even then I don't
> agree with ALL that the TLA says because the beat
> rate exhibited between two
> chromatically adjacent major thirds may not, to my
> ear, follow the curve
> laid out by my earlier mentioned analyses. Likewise
> 10ths in the Bass break
> MUST follow the mathematical projection - or be out
> of tune (unless the
> quality of the Bass strings is poor). One cannot use
> this method of analysis
> in the very bottom 8ve for the beat rate is too slow
> for the ear to detect
> accurately. And if it's too slow for the ear to
> detect then what's the point
> in being too darned clever about it? They must
> simply SOUND in tune - for
> that, in the final analysis, is what tuning pianos
> is all about. I also have
> to tune with early keyboard temperaments - and...
> you know what?... as you
> continue to listen to music using these gorgeous
> tempered sounds you begin
> to realise just how flat and bland the equal
> temperament of the piano is.
> These temperaments are used mainly on pipe organs
> (mostly on the european
> continent) and Harpsichords. So what I am saying
> here is that the ear can be
> bent to accept whatever it is listening to - unless,
> of course, it is
> grossly out of tune to any concept! Ask any string
> player whether a G# is
> the same as an Ab.OK? :-)
> Regards
> Michael G (UK)
> 
> 
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