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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, I thought I'd report on how it =
worked
out. I took Jim Busby's suggestion of looking at the bore =
distance
and ended up raising the stack .018" (thin white card punching). =
It did
the trick and put everything where I wanted it. The first person =
to play
it was Michael Wolff, a jazz pianist and Steinway artist. His =
first
comment to me was, "This action feels really
good." Thumbs up! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Darn, I forgot to ask him
to mention it to the manager of the auditorium. =
:-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks everyone for =
your help.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jorge1ml@mail.cmich.edu
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 12, =
2005 11:27
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Keydip--how =
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<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
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12px">Hello,<BR> Back in
1998, Ruth Laredo commented that “the keys go down too far” on our =
then new D.
Dip at that time was about .415. (This D has a high =
string
height). Having wrestled with keydip question myself, I recently =
asked
Ralph Votapek about it. His comment was that one could feel =
deeper into
the keys and get more power with deeper dip and possibly more control. =
He doesn’t mind it. Other worthy pianists have given me =
varied
opinions. My conclusion is that one size doesn’t =
necessarily fit
all. <BR> Ed Foote’s post did a great =
job of
pointing out the ruling grades for keydip and how they vary. =
Short of
rebuilding the piano, replacing hammers with different bore distance, =
or some
other geometry alteration, there are some choices/compromises we must =
make in
regulating. All we can do is listen to the pianists comments on =
a
particular instrument and make whatever compromise is suitable and =
hope that
what pleases one will satisfy another. I don’t think any =
hard-fast rule
is going to suffice.<BR>-Mike Jorgensen <BR><BR><BR>On 10/11/05 2:20 =
PM,
"Barbara Richmond" <piano57@insightbb.com> =
wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face=Arial>Hi
folks,<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, =
Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>I've had some private correspondence with a few about =
this, but
what the heck, I'll go public to get a few more =
opinions.<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT =
face=Arial>Just wondering
how deep you are willing to go with the key dip on a Steinway D.
I'm trying to decide when to sacrifice blow distance for =
comfortable dip--or making the dip deeper than I like to eek out =
more blow
distance. <BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial>I =
suppose what
it really comes down to is how much difference in power there would =
be
between 1 7/8" blow and 1 3/4"? Significant? This is a =
really
big hall (a bit less than 3500 seats), so power is an issue.
<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, =
Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>Right now (with Crescendo punchings) dip is at .401" =
(my .391
block with a .010" punching added), blow around 1 3/4" with .030"
aftertouch. It feels a lot better <to me> than when the =
blow was
at 1 7/8", though I didn't have any complaints when the dip was =
deeper.
I did go back and read a bunch of stuff in the archives about =
dip and
folks reported that they didn't have complaints about deep dip, but =
I don't
recall anyone getting real specific about how deep they were =
actually
willing to go.<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT =
face=Arial>Thanks for
sharing your experience,<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT =
face=Arial>Barbara
Richmond, RPT <BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, =
Arial"><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR><BR></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><=
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