<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=946430022-28102003><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=946430022-28102003><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=946430022-28102003><FONT face=Garamond = color=#800000>Pardon my density, but why does higher checking reduce power? If the hammer tail = doesn't drag on the way up (and it shouldn't), I can't see how higher checking = reduces power. Checking, after all, occurs after the hammer has hit the string.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=946430022-28102003><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=946430022-28102003><FONT face=Garamond = color=#800000>I must be missing something here.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=946430022-28102003><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=946430022-28102003><FONT face=Garamond = color=#800000>Alan McCoy</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #800000 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT = face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> = caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Richard Brekne<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:22 AM<BR><B>To:</B> = College and University Technicians<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Pinning and Tone<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Jim, I dont think Richard mentioned that = higher checking was a detriment to repetion speed. It was lower drop = = slower rep speed, and higher check = less power. <P>Cheers <BR>RicB <P>Jim Busby wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">Richard, <P>This is exactly what started this thread, and after my visit with = Eric <BR>Schandall and repinning to 4 grams with higher checking things = are <BR>working wonderfully. Fred said 1-3 grams, but Eric told me "No = less than <BR>2, no more than 4". Also, they are making the tails a bit longer = and <BR>want higher checking. It doesn't hurt repetition. It helps it. = The key <BR>seems to be to pay careful attention to the rep spring strength. = No <BR>bouncing, jerking, etc. but a firm rise w/o a jump. <P>Jim Busby BYU <P>----- <BR>Richard West wrote :: <BR>.... But setting the drop low = works against good repetition and setting the checking high reduces = power.  Both are more <BR>difficult to set and, I think, less reliable over = the long run. <BR><A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"></A> </P></BLOCKQU= OTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>UiB, Bergen, Norway = <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> = <BR><A = href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broad= park.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <BR><A = href="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib= .no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A> <BR>  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>