Bore lengths

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:39:53 +0100


Overs Pianos wrote:

>>
>> Measuring the distance between strings and keybed, then hammer 
>> centers and keybed yeilded a near 2 mm difference when done on the 
>> bench visa vi done in the piano. At first I thought that well..... 
>> its a bit clumsy to measure in the piano.... so....  But then I got 
>> to thinking about bedding issues and decided to double check very 
>> closely in the piano and came up with very close to the same 
>> results.  Obviously in this particular example, the bedding screws 
>> accounted for a quite significant difference in the height of hammer 
>> centers. This of course is directly reflected in the bore length one 
>> decides on, so its kind of important to get the darned thing right.
>
>
> The bedding screw adjustment won't make a huge difference to the figures.
>
Hi Ron.

In this case... they evidently do. Tho I'll be muffed with tomatoes if I 
know why at this point.

Cheers
RicB

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