---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stéphane Collin > To: Pianotech > Sent: June 07, 2003 7:49 AM > Subject: Re: Hammer assist spring ? > Hello Ric. But if indeed there is not a repetition > performance comparable to that of a modern action (which, as > Stephen Birkett noted, is seldom really needed in piano > litterature), I can tell you that the gain in feel for > control, especially at low levels, is tremendous. No > buffers between your finger and the hammer, and you really > can regulate set-off at less than 1 mm from the strings > without any problem. I wouldn't want another action in my > own piano. > > > This is the part that intrigues me. The ability to set very close > letoff and the ability to control the action at pianissimo levels. > > This, to me, is the greatest limitation of the so-called "modern" > grand action...... > > Boy do I aggree with this. Kind of appropriate that this comes up > right now as well as I have just run into a pianist / piano > combiniation that quite obviously requires of me a level of pppp and > control of that which I simply can not regulate into the piano. I can > push all the borders to the limit and it still isnt going to satisfy > him. He really needs soft springy mallets. :) > > I have been thinking of moving the capstan line in just abit. This > would drop the ratio a bit giving less hammer / shank speed for same > amount of key motion. It would also lessen DW tho... which could well > serve to give the opposite effect I want... but I'm tempted anyways. > Besides... just happens that the capstans on this Seiler grand are too > loose anyways. > > What do you think ? > > Del > > > -- 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0c/16/82/35/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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