Rebuilt Action Touch is too light

[ed440 at mindspring.com]

Brett-
Can you do a very good grand regulation?
Do you know how to measure down and up weights?
This comes before Stanwood.  
Have you worked through the PACE book on grand regulation?
Read the articles on touchweight by Bill Spurlock, Alan Vincent, Susan Graham?
First you need a good set of gram weights such as are sold by Pianotek.
Make haste slowly!
Ed Sutton

-----Original Message-----
>From: BRETT GLASS <bgpianoman at email.com>
>Sent: Nov 16, 2006 3:52 AM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Rebuilt Action Touch is too light
>
>OK I've read Stanwood's PTD articles and I'm sure that technically this
>is where I need to get to. With time and some investment in equipment
>I'll get there.  Being on a remote Island in the South Pacific it's not
>practical to call in a tech with the expertise & tools .   I need to
>know the basics or how to take these  balance weight measurements your
>asking for . Just so I don't make a mistake would some one spell it out
>for me or tell me where I can find references to taking these
>measurements . Also is there a kit I can buy with the weights I'll need
>.  And someone said something about hammer shank clips from Pianotek . Is
>there a part number ? Would they be available from Schaff ? I think this
>might also be a good place to start. As I read in Stanwood's articles
>they did this to see the pianist perception of touch when strike weight
>was increased . I might be able to try this with the teachers to see if
>this helps them .  Has anyone used the lead wire Stanwood talks about to
>add weight to hammers ? What is the best scale to buy ?
>
>Thanks again , Brett
>
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