Good point Alan, In my private business life, quite often after tuning a customers piano, they would comment, " it plays so much better!"  Tone, tune voicing all play a role as well.  It would come down to how good a musician this Baldwin owner is and some more homework of what he wants.( or thinks he wants :>)  ) Paul <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>Alan McCoy <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu> Sent by: caut-bounces@ptg.org 10/17/2007 01:10 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>"College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: [CAUT] lighter touchweight</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>Jeff, Others have offered good info technically. However, it would be a good idea to really explore with the pianist exactly what they mean by "feel lighter." It could indeed be a mechanical issue. But it might instead be an issue of tone perception leading them to feel the action as heavy. The interplay of tone and touch are wound tightly together for many pianists and the vocabulary used to describe the problem often reflects this. So touch problems come out as tone problems, and vice versa. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy@mail.ewu.edu 509-359-4627 > From: Jeff Farris <Jfarris@mail.utexas.edu> > Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org> > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:33:53 -0500 > To: <CAUT@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@mail.utexas.edu > 512-471-0158 </tt>