Ric B. wrote: > Touchy - feely stuff as you put it just plain leaves way to much room for .... shall we say "interpretation". Thats the stuff disagreements without basis is made of Ric! Sometimes this is all we have, and should be the most important criteria. As soon as you sit at a piano issues like action saturation, heavy hammers, damper problems, and on and on jump at you in miliseconds. I don't need to quantify any of this until I get it on the bench and start spending the customer's money. These first 'touchy feely' inputs I recieve from the piano tell all kinds of things. >Thing is.... when you come to think of it.... something along the lines of 99.6 % of the worlds pianists actually don't have a problem with the keys as they come out of the factory. It might be that 99.6% do have a problem, and it might be in the key as it comes out of the factory, or some other part of the action as it comes out of the factory. I really don't think they are satisfied. Frankly, I have not addressed the issue of key stiffness, or tried to make any modification to that end. But, I am following this thread with interest and intend to do some experiments. I will defininately be using 'touchy-feely' before and after as part of my data collection. Fenton PS. I'm way behind on these threads, so please excuse my reply if it is by this time obsolete.
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