[pianotech] key leveling with a curve

[Dale Erwin]

 Hi Horace
  Always good to hear from you.  All this strikes me as primarily more microscopic minutia we are prone to. AS Bill Spurlock once said Just do good piano work and most people we be happy.  or as I say Major on the majors.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley at sonic.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tue, Oct 12, 2010 10:47 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] key leveling with a curve



Hi, Ron,

At 09:33 PM 10/12/2010, you wrote:


Functionally, it's a non event.Visual aesthetics are an almost plausible explanation. Then again, itwould be interesting to see if anyone (at all) could visually (withoutsighting down the row) pick a 1/32" crowned key level out from amongsix pianos, five of which are leveled flat. Can anyone actually do this,or is sheep dip, yet again, apparently an acquiredtaste?

While I suspect that it is, for many, sheepdip; I can relatefrom direct experience that there were (at one time) at least fourpianists who definitely could detect this phenomenon:  They were(or, in a couple of cases, still are): Ivan Moravec, Eugene Istomin, JohnPerry and James Boyk.  These could and did directly identify this,and other, kinds of fairly low-level action-related issues when I haveworked with them.  I'm sure that there were others who at leastcognated such things even if they did not necessarily have ways in whichto articulate what they were experiencing.

That said, as you note, I strongly suspect that these kinds of things arelargely non-events for most players under most circumstances.

Best.

Horace

 
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