regulation problems

[Will Wickham]

Hi Jeff,

The suggestions about regulating in the piano are right on for sure.  
That's the way that Yamaha teaches their own techs and the way they  
teach it in their 'Little Red Schoolhouse'. Everything is done in the  
piano. Some of the work is a bit tricky until you get used to working  
inside the action cavity but the results are well worth it. Since  
doing the 'Schoolhouse' I've done all grand regulating in the piano  
with wonderful results!

The other thing to mention is that Yamaha's preferred blow distance  
is just about 44 mm. They actually sell a small plastic tool that is  
wonderful for setting the blow distance on some samples then you can  
finish up by eyeballing between the top of the stack and the pin block.

Final word - practice makes perfect (and if you can get a Yamaha  
dealer to nominate you for the 'Little Red Schoolhouse' - even better!)

will wickham


On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Jeff Miller wrote:

> O.k. now that I've completely typed all the wrong info on the first  
> email, and embarrassed myself , let me try this again.
> The piano is a G1 Yamaha
> Key height is 65.5
> blow distance is 47.5
> key dip is 3/8 (using the Jaras key dip tool)
> My problem is after I get through all the regulation points the  
> white keys are bottoming out on the black keys  front rail felt.  I  
> am regulating this action on the bench, I don't' know if that  
> changes anything.  I can't think of any other details. Yes, I have  
> spaced everything, aligned jacks in windows, etc..  I feel like its  
> probably something real minor that I'm just overlooking.
> Thanks for any help.
> Jeff Miller
>
>

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