Your results may vary. I tried this on my Baldwin M at home before writing my original post, and it worked (didn't work) fine: key up and down, no hammer striking string. After reading Jon's post, I tried it on a Steinway B at UNM, and the backcheck jammed on the hammer tail immediately. So the check had to be adjusted back for it to work. Then I tried a note on a Yamaha G-2, and it worked fine, but on a piano (as in soft, not forte) keystroke, the hammer would play. The rep spring was too strong. Anyway, at a place like Cal Arts, it might be a worthwhile thing to know how to do, and to go to a bit of trouble to "get it right." For the rest of us, probably not. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Jon Page wrote: > >you could adjust the jacks forward, > > I don't see that working because once the note is played > the action will capsize and the key will hang down. > > As pointed out earlier, a punching under the sharp will > interfere with the naturals unless it is narrow. > > If he wants the keys to operate but not sound, then remove > the wip and shank and weight the key. If he just wants the > key inoperable, tie a Twist-Tie around the rep lever and shank, > a double loop for security. Easily installed, easily removed > without interfering with neighboring keys. > -- > > Regards, > > Jon Page > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070820/c402fab1/attachment.html
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