Well here we are again Sophie my old girl... Just got this in about a course at the Reno Convention... by Stannwood himself. I mentioned that I had done an experiment that showed a smoother up and down weight by concentrating more leads in the center and somebody who declared himself an ex-genuis type engineer...grin... said he repeated my experiment and could not duplicate the results... I of course re checked a few times and got the same results as I first did... but figured ahhhh drop it.... grin... Anyways... from David Stannwoods course description this year.. "We will feature a new demonstration with a piano key mounted on a metronome to show how more keyleads close to the balance rail take less force to move than less keyleads further out with a discussion of how key lead patterns may be designed to enhance action quality." Now I know force isnt the same as inertia... but all these are interelated when it comes to how the action behaves (in all respects) when you put a weight on the key.... In anycase...I still note that putting equivalant fw weights with a bit more mass towards the center invaribly gives me a smoother UW / DW reading. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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