Avery Todd wrote: > Scott, > > Without referring to a bunch of the replies to your post, if I > remember correctly, you mentioned decreasing hammer blow and taking up > the resulting lost motion. This will make the spoons lift sooner and > thereby bringing the tension of the damper springs into the equation, > making the touch feel heavier. > > You also mentioned about a "weird touch" and I believe some associated > that with the "bobbling hammer" thing in their response(s). Two > basically unrelated things, IMO. Pehaps not so unrelated... overly tight dampersprings feel weird.... and can cause you to not bottom out well enough whilst playing... and can indeed contribute to a bobblings problem. Personally, I dont run into this kind of thing too much. Seems like manufactureres have understood that damper springs can actually be too tight Cheers RicB. > Avery > > At 07:49 AM 12/16/04, you wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for your responses. >> >> I can understand how an overly tight jack spring would make it >> difficult and slow for the jack to trip out--getting in the way of >> the hammer but--but what i don't get is how the dampers (springs or >> spoons) would figure in. Can somebody spell this out for me? Thanks >> again. >> >> Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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