This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment How DOES one go about teaching how to establish proper key height in an = upright? I've heard discussions about parameters as determined by case = parts, balance pin height, and so on, that doesn't really home in on the = optimum key height. Recently I came to a fairly new delivery where the customer complained = that she couldn't get sufficient repetition. Two other technicians = before me had tinkered with the action enough to get sufficient = aftertouch, but the piano played with all of the grace of a heavy truck. = Both technicians had confessed to the customer that they were not = pianists, and had done as much as they could according to the = manufacturer specs. Now I'm hardly a pianist myself, but my first sense was that the keys = were sitting too low. OK, raised the key-height, and regulated the = action accordingly, including adjusting the key depth. Got a nice = aftertouch equation and turned the customer loose on playing it. She = reported that the action now flies. What have I done? Both technicians and the dealer all want to know. I = told them what I could, but realized that I had no real way of = explaining how to determine what the optimum key height should be for = any particular upright piano. The original key height was well within = the parameters mentioned above when I first came to the piano, but I = knew it could be greatly improved ...... Any ideas out there? Thanks! Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f8/f9/91/4f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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