basic regulating question

[Farrell]

Have you regulated aftertouch? First make sure your lost motion is right, your blow distance is even, let-off is even and then regulate aftertouch.

I guess I don't really even think about all the individual steps to action regulation anymore. Maybe I should. But one thing I really never do is "regulate" key dip - I mean I do check dip on a number of keys to be sure I am about where I want it, but I don't check all keys to make sure dip is exactly the same. The pianist will sense an irregular aftertouch much more readily than a few thousandths of an inch difference in dip. And if blow is equal and lost motion is even and aftertouch is even, then dip is going to be quite even automatically.

But then again, I don't consider myself to be an action regulation expert!

Back to cuttin' & bendin' some Sitka and Sugar Maple!

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KeyKat88 at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:37 PM
  Subject: basic regulating question


  Greetings,

             This may seem like a dumb question but after I level the keys and insure even key dip in an upright, why dont all the jacks have the same distance between the jack tip and the hammer butt after I depress the key and hold it there? Are my capstans uneven? Maybe its been too long a time since I learned this, and having only done about 4 regulations, maybe I am not remembering something. 

  Julia
  Reading PA





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