[CAUT] tight balancier

[Jim Busby]

Wim,

Davenport advocates 6-8 grams on the rep lever (a bit more resistance
than convention). Seems like he even went to nine. I've been doing that
for about a year now and I really like it. Seems to stabilize the
regulation more.

Jim Busby BYU

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Willem Blees
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:46 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] tight balancier

Ed

this morning on the Concert D, I repinned about 2 dozen balanciers in 
octaves 2 and 3 from about 2 grams up to 6 grams. I had to reset the 
springs so that the hammer just barely moves up on release. The 
bobbling was less than before, but they still do not check on a medium 
to soft blow. 

I checked the resistance on the lowest octave, and they were at 6 
grams already. But they are also still bobbling on a medium blow. 
(They do check on a harder blow). Have you tried increasing the 
resistance to more than 6 grams in the low bass?