Steinway regulation

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In a message dated 3/23/2001 4:05:03 PM, Ron N. wrote:

<<"All this is of
course assuming that the let off distance is sacrosanct, and isn't to be
used to split the difference between any of the other compromises, but is
that necessarily the case?">>

 Danged Ron I don't know......... maybe in some instances it is but perhaps 
not. Like Roger and Gina said in their "Interactive" series, everything is so 
tied together it is diffipossible to tell where one starts and the other 
stops...all the way from what direction the casters were pointing during fine 
regulation, up to and including whether the reuglation should be aimed for 
the start of the performance or the ending 
thereof.............................

 I would think, given reasonable, workable, parameters in all other areas, 
that let-off should be as uniform as possible.  Using the fff to ppp 
scale............ the further toward ppp you go the more "sacrosanct" let-off 
uniformity becomes. I don't think that the distance of let off is as 
important to 'performers' as uniformity is, within reason.

 Now I am far from an 'accomplished' piano player :-) 
but..................thems my thoughts.
Jim Bryant (FL)