bruce greig wrote: > From my own experience, reducing the mass of the hammer moldings has > minimal effect on touch weight and there are so many other factors to > consider that you would have to see the piano first hand, or at least > know it's complete history... ----- Original Message ----- Gotta echo Keiths post here Bruce. As a very general rule of thumbs, you can count on 5 grams of touchweight i.e. (DW + UW) / 2, for every gram of hammer weight. If you sand off a gram of those tails, as you most certainly can by the looks of them, you will reduce the amount of counterbalanceing needed by 5+ grams no doubt about it. Having to see the piano first hand is not really longer prerequisit methinks. A few appropriately taken measurements pertaining to leverages and parts weights can tell us enough to make quite appropriate suggestions for changes in the action that will either improve its performance as intended, or alter its basic touch characteristics in predetermined fashion. btw... turns out these hammers are Steinways alright. I asked the fellow and shor'nuf... the S&S name is stamped on one of the lower bass hammers. Would be interesting to have a gander at the factories criteria for how much wood to remove in tailing the hammers. Looks to me like this was pretty much.... a minimalist approach. :) Cheers 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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