---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Sarah, I was looking over your graph. This is strike weight, right? Not head weight? Even so, it looks like it might be unnecessarily porky for a Steinway clone. What kind of hammers are they, and have the sides been tapered? Head to tail, or just tails? Has any additional coving been done? As others have mentioned, doing your own tapering with a table saw jig like the Spurlock goes a long way toward evening up (and reducing) weight. If they are 11 mm wide, they may not need to be, which you can check against the string spacing. If they do need to be as wide as whatever they are, you can just start the taper at that width. After tapering, I weigh each head before coving, and can make a 0.1 - 0.2 gram evening-out adjustment in the weight by varying the cove, without having it show. I think you are wise to put off final adjustments until you can put some hammers in the piano and see what kind of weight the action wants, as well as what kind of sound you're getting. Bob Davis ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/19/6e/10/ea/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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