Jeff, Part of the reason for my last post is that there are many pianists who'd kill for a piano with low 50s and high 20s. I'd be willing to bet that the problem lies elsewhere. Too-early damper timing is often the culprit. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at mail.ewu.edu 509-359-4627 > From: Jeff Farris <Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu> > Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org> > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:33:53 -0500 > To: <CAUT at ptg.org> > 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
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