Low Inertia

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sun Oct 5 17:04:11 MDT 2008


David Love wrote:
> As one who routinely redesigns actions I'm not sure I would agree that key
> lead doesn't play a role in inertial feel of the downstroke.  While I can't
> provide the math I can say that I have on several occasions taken actions
> that were balanced but where the action geometry had left them with
> excessive key leading.  With a simple move of the capstan the removal of
> lead, rebalancing the action back to the same balance weight the action
> "feels" considerably different, less "inertial" as it were.  

Yes, which changed the action ratio.
Ron N


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