Steinway regulation

[Richard Brekne]

David Ilvedson wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Great tip!
>
> David I.
>

I'd love to be able to take credit for this... but really I gotta give that to
Laroy Edwards... He pointed out this to me and other class participants about
18 years ago in Oslo. But yes... its a good one.

>
> >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.
> >

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no