That's OK, Ed. Sometimes the straw is the short one. ;-] Balance Rail holes is another area that may need attention. Either thinning or easing. I'll check that, too. I don't suspect FW, given the overall feel of the action, and the leading pattern, but just so, worth measuring. William R. Monroe On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com> wrote: > > Ed, why do you think 1 3/4" and .400" is markedly out of the normal > range? Just curious. I find that this amount of key travel is on the wider > side, but still workable with 1 3/4" blow in a lot of actions. Didn't get > to measure the action ratio or strike weights. > > > I don't know what is normal to Bostons, but I have usually needed the .400" > dip with longer blows, like on the B and D Steinways. > As far as the bouncing on staccato,(non-checked) blow......... That > sounds like an excessively heavy FW or just maybe, an excessively tight > balance rail hole, or even, as R. Jolly likes to zero in on, a balance rail > hole that has too much wood left at the bottom of the pin mortise, causing a > key that "wants" to spring back off the front punching. > ( I know it sounds like I'm grasping at the straws, but, yea, I am). > Regards, > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100730/045bfcbd/attachment.htm>
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