action ratios

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Stephane,
                        With out seeing the piano, I would suspect that the 
shoulders need deep needling to get some elasticity into them.
Regards Roger



At 08:58 PM 11/1/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Richard, David, Bill, etc.
>
>I've been following the thread with much interest.
>May I ask an innocent but pragmatic question (I think related to this topic) ?
>More than often, I encounter this problem when rebuilding Bechstein pianos 
>: I get the sound right, I get the touch feel ok, but the whole instrument 
>always happens to be difficult to control, as the dynamic output switches 
>too quickly from PP to mF (I mean :  the dynamic shades are not 
>progressive enough.  Very soft playing is fantastic, very loud also, but 
>progressively crossing from soft to loud happens to be difficult to 
>control, as sound gets loud too quickly, which is musically not desirable 
>at all).
>How would you all cure this problem ?
>
>Thanks to all for great expertise.
>
>Stéphane Collin.
>
>
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