Farrell wrote: > Graeme, thanks for the slick procedure! I'll give this one a whirl next > time. Just curious on one more thing. In your opinion, when is spoon lift > "correct" - damper starts lifting at one-half hammer blow distance? I second that emotion !!! Halfblow is certainly close to text book distance.. Remember this started out as a thread dealing with touch in pianos... you have a little leway here to work with... perhaps more here then in many other adjustments. Personally I like my dampers to start a little sooner then half way. And I like as firm a spring tension as I can get away with without causing problems. > Also, in Randy Potter's course he mentions a method for adjusting spoons > with the action in the piano. Says he got it from a lady at the Kimball > factory. She "attaches a 7/8" thick block of wood to the strings (now how > did she do that? Maybe a piece of light wood (balsa?) with a couple magnet > strips glued to the back?) and moves the wippen up with one hand, and when > the hammer just touches the wood block, the damper should be just starting > to move. If not, adjust accordingly with good tool. Randy mentions that she > removed all keys first and that he also does this. Doesn't say why, and I > can't really imagine why one would need to do that. I think this is because it makes it a bit easier to get the tool in under and on the back side of the whippens with the keys out.... or what ? > > > I have never tried the above method, but it sounds good to me. Now if I > could just figure out how the heck to find those little spoon > things............ Grin... I think that sentiment is shared by most.... and is probably at the root of why there are so many good "out of piano" routines... whadya think ? > > > Terry Farrell > Piano Tuning & Service > Tampa, Florida > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC