rep springs

Jon Page jonpage@attbi.com
Thu Jun 6 23:47 MDT 2002


At 05:05 PM 6/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Wim,
>         I was taught something early on that may help you. When 
> regulating an action it's best to make a few passes at it. Similar I 
> think to the multipass tuning everyone talks about. If you had gone 
> through the action more than once I'm sure that you would have found that 
> the spring tension was low. A common error is to set the spring tension 
> before making at least gross adjustments to the checking height. If the 
> checking height is near to normal the spring tension you set will stay 
> nicely. If you don't  ... it won't. I hope this helps!
>
>Greg Newell

Precisely, check-in height (not to mention key dip) prior to rep spring 
tension.
Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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