Thanks Rodger

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Julia,
              Happy things worked out for you.
Re, lost motion.  Many consoles have front weighted keys.  If the 
bridle tapes are too tight there may be not enough weight from the 
wippen to seat the key back on the bolster cloth. ( Hence no lost 
motion) Some of the lesser quality consoles seem to need the weight 
of both the hammer butt assembly and wippen to get the key back to rest.
This problem will also effect key level and dip.
Adjusting lost motion can be classified as fudge 101.  Do what you 
can to make the piano reasonably playable and move on.

Regards Roger.

At 03:24 PM 5/4/2006, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>             Thanks for the suggestion on manipulating the hammer 
> rest rail. I put a washer as a spacer behind the action bracket in 
> the way right treble. Boy did that clear up the treble closeness, 
> it seemed to help throughout the rest of the rail too.
>
>             Also, upon closer examination, I pulled on the rail, 
> and there was negative lost motion. I put some lost motion in a few 
> of the keys and kept track of the degree of turn, then I went 
> through and turned down all the capstans by 3/4 of a turn and the 
> blow distance is now much more consistent; within 1/32" of the selected 1 3/4"
>
>Thanks again,
>Julia Gottshall,
>Reading, PA
>
>
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