--On Saturday, May 29, 2004 4:25 PM -0500 "David M. Porritt" <dporritt@mail.smu.edu> wrote: > Fred: > > Just musing here, but I do think a "reliable" regulation has some merit. > I've regulated pianos to the gnat's eyelash and had it go south on me > making blocking hammers, or double striking hammers. Generally, when you > go back to fix that you say something about fine regulation being very > close to blocking. I don't think the customers are impressed at that > point. You regulated, you had to come back and fix it. In their mind it > was wrong. I heard Bill Garlick once tell a class that if you're going > to regulate it that close make sure to hang around for the concert! > > I live 17 miles from the school so I do tend to like a "safe" regulation. > I don't set it at 3mm but I don't like it so close that you can kind of > feel the hammer letting off on the string. In addition, in a recital > hall seating 500 there is seldom any playing done at the pppp level such > that the note would miss. Most recital playing is pp to sfffffff! > > I enjoyed his perspective and his comments on voicing. I too mainly > worry about the striking surface though I understand that this is > somewhat controversial. Whatever floats your boat! > > dave
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