[pianotech] key leveling with a curve

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Dale!

At 06:59 AM 10/13/2010, you wrote:
>Hi Horace
>   Always good to hear from you.

Thanks very much!  (Greetings from Australia, by the by...Sydney is beautiful!)

>All this strikes me as primarily more microscopic minutia we are prone to.

Indeed so.

>AS Bill Spurlock once said Just do good piano work and most people 
>we be happy.  or as I say Major on the majors.

Or, as Richard Davenport made justly famous some years ago - "Lighten 
Up!  It's only a piano!"

(...of course, if you know Richard, then the above is a most serious 
killer!...)

>  Good day

And, to you, as well!

Horace



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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, it would be interesting to see 
>>if anyone (at all) could visually (without sighting down the row) 
>>pick a 1/32" crowned key level out from among six pianos, five of 
>>which are leveled flat. Can anyone actually do this, or is sheep 
>>dip, yet again, apparently an acquired taste?
>
>While I suspect that it is, for many, sheepdip; I can relate from 
>direct experience that there were (at one time) at least four 
>pianists who definitely could detect this phenomenon:  They were 
>(or, in a couple of cases, still are): Ivan Moravec, Eugene Istomin, 
>John Perry and James Boyk.  These could and did directly identify 
>this, and other, kinds of fairly low-level action-related issues 
>when I have worked with them.  I'm sure that there were others who 
>at least cognated such things even if they did not necessarily have 
>ways in which to articulate what they were experiencing.
>
>That said, as you note, I strongly suspect that these kinds of 
>things are largely non-events for most players under most circumstances.
>
>Best.
>
>Horace
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