Found it! Greetings, If you are referring to the older style of fly(jack) that has no adjusting button nor spoon, you will have to thread a couple of pieces of embroidery thread through the compacted felt that positions the fly under the knuckle. Be advised that this felt is hard to properly replace. It is very quiet, and anything you replace it with needs to be really soft, which will compact rather quickly. I use a fairly large needle and insert the thread from the top, pulling it through until flush with the upper surface, and slice it free from the bottom with a long blade in an Xacto knife. It is also usual that these vintage whippens have verdigris, so that is one more reason to replace them. Regards, Ed Foote RPT On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> wrote: > In this action there are a number of things conspiring to give the pianist > a feeling of heavy touch: hammers that are somewhat soft, excessive key > friction, jacks too far under the knuckles, to name a few. The actual dw and > uw numbers aren't too bad. > > Thanks for the lead - I'll see if I can find Ed's post. > > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:55 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>wrote: > >> There was just a posting on this by Ed Foote but it won't likely solve the >> heavy touch problem. >> >> >> >> David Love >> www.davidlovepianos.com >> ------------------------------ >> *From: * Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> >> *Sender: * pianotech-bounces at ptg.org >> *Date: *Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:38:22 -0800 >> *To: *<pianotech at ptg.org> >> *ReplyTo: * pianotech at ptg.org >> *Subject: *[pianotech] No jack position adjustment on older Steinway A. >> >> I consulted with a client today about his early 1900's Steinway A. The >> client has been unhappy with the heavy touch, so one of the things I checked >> was jack postion. I then discovered that there was no adjustment for the >> jack position! This is the first time I've seen this. >> >> I'm thinking maybe the easiest way to adjust it is to put a paper shim on >> the back of the jack. Any other ideas? How unusual is this? >> >> -- >> Ryan Sowers, RPT >> Puget Sound Chapter >> Olympia, WA >> www.pianova.net >> > > > > -- > Ryan Sowers, RPT > Puget Sound Chapter > Olympia, WA > www.pianova.net > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101112/49fa820c/attachment-0001.htm>
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