Hi Jon, I saw a demo of this system at a chapter meeting about a year ago, but the details will be better coming from John Rhodes, RPT. He is a brilliant guy and developed a touch-weight measuring system with Darrel Fandrich. In a nutshell, the technician uses one mushroom shaped weight (as shown in the Journal), and measures the distance from the keyfront where the key goes down. There is a corresponding computer program where the data is entered...things like keyfront to balance rail, etc. The advantage over traditional touch-weight methods, is it uses one weight instead of the usual combination of 10's, 20's, 25's, etc. and is quicker for guys like me who drop the multiple weights on the floor multiple times. I've included John's e-mail in the hope that he will respond more intelligently than what I'm dredging up from the depths of chapter technicals. Dave Davis, RPT ________________________________ From: Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:10:35 AM Subject: [pianotech] New Tools I see in the January 2009 PTJ that Jurgen at Piano Forte Supply advertises the Fandrich/Rhodes Key Weighing System. I looked on the website: http://www.pianofortesupply.com/index.html but could not find this new tool listed. Could someone fill us in on the details of this? I'm certain most of the list subscribers would like first-hand info. I for one especially appreciate Jurgen's efforts of making European items available on this continent at a reasonable cost. He has filled a void in the market. Happy New Year -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090101/dd36a9ac/attachment.html>
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