Hello from Singapore

[chweelee@singnet.com.sg]

Hello David,

May I know if you are stationed at Fort Worth because I will be visiting FW soon and would like to meet up with you. I wonder if you still remember me or not, I had ever been to your work place and ordered a tuning hammer and some piano parts from you. Well, hope to hear from you. Thank you.

Chwee Lan Lee

--- David Love <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net> wrote:

> As Bill pointed out, it's the front to back placement of the plate,
> not the
> height, that determines the capstan position.  The farther in that
> they set
> the plate, the farther the capstan goes with it.  Actions are fit to
> the
> belly with the keyframe in a fixed position by determining the
> strike point
> and with the hammers glued on at a fixed 130 mm.  The capstan is set
> also
> at a specific position with respect to the center of the wippen
> cushion.  
> This causes a variation in key ratio.  You know the rest.  
> 
> On the other issue, (and response to Terry as well) the Kawai did
> not have
> the same problems with changes in friction.  I frequently find that
> new
> Steinway parts do not do well with humidity swings (Renner has the
> same
> problem).  I encounter sticking jacks, hammer and damper flange
> problems on
> new NY Steinways all the time.  Interestingly, these problems do not
> seem
> to appear in the showroom (air conditioned to compensate for lots of
> hot
> lights, i.e. low humidity), but occur frequently once the piano is
> moved
> out to the customers home where humidity (at least in this area) is
> always
> much higher.  
> 
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> > To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Date: 8/28/2003 8:38:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: Dampp Chaser and Grand Action
> >
> >
> >
> > Farrell wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately, I believe that this is another plate indexing
> problem in
> which the capstan is located too far back and the ratio is just too
> high
> producing a very heavy feeling action."
> >
> > This thingy about plate height being the determinant for capstan
> placement has been vaguely put up a few times in the past couple
> years and
> I have yet to get a finger on exactly how that works out. Just what,
> step
> by step proceedure do factories use to get from <<plate height>>
> (over
> keybed ?) to capstan placement ?
> >
> > Detailed explanation would be reallllly appreciated. Goes to some
> of
> Stanwoods proceedures, some of Baldersins (and others) criticisms of
> those,
> and represents one of those "far to many" holes in my own
> knowledge.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > RicB
> >
> >
> > --
> > Richard Brekne
> > RPT, N.P.T.F.
> > UiB, Bergen, Norway
> > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> > http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
> >
> >
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