Steinway regulation

David Ilvedson ilvey@jps.net
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:19:25 -0800


Richard,

Great tip!

David I.

>I always do before starting a full regulation is to run a straight edge
>under
>all the knuckles and look at the resulting hammer line. This tells me a
bit
>about just how much I can expect without dinking around with knuckles.
>Then I
>run that same straight edge under the whippen cushions. If the resulting
>hammer
>line is like all over the place then you have little chance of getting any
>real
>uniformity without correcting the middle action first... course you could
>always do some creative hammer filing...grin... but then you run into mass
>uneveness and voicing challanges.
>




This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC