Hi Jeff, There's a couple of things that come to mind to lighten the touch. One thing you might look at on the hammers is how tapered or narrow they are. Felt weighs more than the wood, so some material could come off there. (remember 5:1 weight ratio) Or, you can take some wood off the sides of the shanks if they're big fatty's (you could also get new shanks with a longer flange to knuckle). Another quicker thing to just make it "feel" lighter is delay the damper lift beyond the standard 1/2 blow distance. I'm sure you'll get more suggestions, but that's what popped in my head first. Best, Paul Jeff Farris <Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu> Sent by: caut-bounces at ptg.org 10/17/2007 10:33 AM Please respond to College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> To CAUT at ptg.org cc Subject [CAUT] lighter touchweight Hi List, I have a customer who wants his 1975 Baldwin 6'8" grand to feel lighter. It was virtually unused for many years and recently had an action reconditioning and regulation. It weighed off pretty reasonable. Downweight averaged low 50's to 50 and upweight averaged upper 20's to 30. Friction seemed low if anything. There isn't a lot of lead in the keys, as much as four weights in some of the lower bass. The hammers have enough "extra" material in the cove to remove some in an arc shape. I'm wondering if doing only that would result in enough weight loss to make much difference. Has anyone done this procedure not in conjunction with leading, etc. and received good results? Sorry if you already received this. I tried to send this message yesterday from a different source computer and don't know if it went out. :) Thanks, -- Jeff Farris Piano Technician School of Music UT Austin mailto; jfarris at mail.utexas.edu 512-471-0158 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20071017/a55345f3/attachment.html
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