Thanks all for the helpful advice. I also wanted to check if there was anything special in the care and feeding of a Seiler but guess not. It's an upright piano! Tom Cole On 10/22/10 12:32 AM, Thomas Cole wrote: > I tuned a wonderful-sounding but poorly-regulated Seiler today. The > owner and 8-year-old daughter both report the touch is too heavy. When > I tried the piano, it was hard to play pp passages without notes > dropping out here and there and, yes, it felt heavy. > > There is a card on one side showing the regulation specs. Notes 1 - 34 > have 56g (DW) and 35 - 88 have 54g. I found that most of the keys had > four leads behind the balance rail (half leads, two on each side). The > few keys I checked, with the wippen raised, the lead weights seemed to > be balancing the front weight of each key (see two photos below > showing both sides of C4). > > All of the dampers are timed very early (dampers move after a couple > of mm hammer travel). > > My question is, what would be the most technicianly way of reducing > touchweight? Anything I need to know about this particular piano? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101022/2bf3736f/attachment.htm>
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