Joseph Garrett wrote: >David Love asked: "Does anyone out there actually measure the resistance on >the balancier and repin for a specific target?" > > Not so often... depends on whether I think I have a problem with hammer weight. I often find in a heavy hammer I have to go for both tighter hammer shank centers and less tight rep spring centers to reduce the tendency of bobbling in borderline regulation. The hammer rebounds less from a tight rep lever on soft play this way. I have one customer in particular who has this reallly difficult technique to regulate for. He wants letoff at as close as is humanly possible to get the sofftest of pianisimos possible.... almost like what you can get with a clavichord..... but at the same time he wants no bobbling.... cute eh ?? The best I have been able to do for him is to increase hammer friction, minimize rep lever centerpin friction, lower rep spring strength, and minimize jack center friction.
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