>>Super-loose also makes it difficult for me to get the spring the way I >>like it. > >You can only turn yourself into a pretzel trying...go for some modest, >otherwise unacceptable, via medium and call it a day. The problem, of course, being that the spring doesn't lift the hammer during play. It pushes the back of the key down. We try to set the spring strength by hammer lift, which will be greatly influenced by flange friction, and will have only a passing relationship to what the spring actually does. Ron N
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