Nice Tails ???

[Farrell]

> The upweight is also affected in certain proportions.

Most certainly! About the same amount as downweight is!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith McGavern" <kam544@gbronline.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Nice Tails ???


> At 6:57 PM -0400 6/29/03, bruce greig wrote:
> >From my own experience, reducing the mass of the hammer moldings has 
> >minimal effect on touch weight ...
> 
> Sorry, Bruce, but I'll have to beg to differ with you, and here I 
> don't even know you   :-)
> 
> So please don't take it personal.
> 
> Reducing the mass of the hammer head, whether from the molding and/or 
> the felt part, by 1 gram (give or take) will reduce the downweight by 
> 5 grams (give or take).
> 
> Now, I'm not blowing smoke here. I've done it on more than one 
> occassion and have experienced the effects firsthand.
> 
> The upweight is also affected in certain proportions.
> 
> Keith McGavern
> 
> 
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