While working with one of my colleagues to help him through the ins and outs of the Stanwood basics we got into a brief discussion about what is desirable from the pianist's point of view: uniform balance weight or uniform downweight. It's easy enough to set up the balance weight system so that it gradually increases in proportion to the ever decreasing friction in order to achieve a uniform downweight. The charts below illustrates that. I'm curious for those of you who use the balance weight system whether you ever target a uniform downweight instead and what the overall reaction is. I typically do not, though I'm considering trying it on the next action. I do sometimes get comments that the upper end of the piano is too light and it seems like a reasonable approach. One side benefit of doing it this way is a higher up weight in the upper end of the piano which, presumably, would reap benefits in terms of repetition. The key didn't copy for some reason so it is as follows: (if the charts don't appear open the email in html rather than plain text). Blue circles are down weight Red diamonds are balance weight Blue Triangles are up weight Red circles are friction Note 1 is on the far left, 88 on the far right David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090924/b25017d4/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/png Size: 120109 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090924/b25017d4/attachment-0002.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/png Size: 125621 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090924/b25017d4/attachment-0003.png>
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