John wrote: >... This means that all of the effort taken to get the action even >is wasted if the pianist plays with the pedal down. Do you really mean "down" in the above? I'm still curious to know whether static balancing is supposed to be done with damper lifters factored in or out. What John says above implies balancing is to be done with the dampers factored IN, i.e. in the piano with the foot off the pedal. Is this rule general, or optional, or did John mean pedal UP in the sentence above? Stephen -- Stephen Birkett Fortepianos Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos 464 Winchester Drive Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2T 1K5 tel: 519-885-2228 mailto: sbirkett[at]real.uwaterloo.ca http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett
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