[pianotech] Key Balancing

Daniel Carlton danielcarltondesign at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 14:14:49 MST 2010


On Dec 15, 2010, at 6:55 AM, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:

> A Cable spinet this morning, was a semitone low, and had the  
> compulsory non-repeating C-8, so I fixed both. I've done this to  
> dozens, if not hundreds of small pianos (mostly Baldwins, it seems  
> [the key, that is]), and it's the only thing I've found that is  
> reliable. Takes about equal amounts of time to disassemble and  
> reassemble as to do the whittling. This is why the bottom of my tool  
> box has always had giant shavings of one sort or another in it since  
> day one.
>
> Ron N

hi Ron

How do you decide how wood much to take off? Do you just do it till it  
feels right?

Daniel
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