David Love wrote: >The smoothest letoff will occur when the jack tender hits the letoff button >at the same time that the drop screw hits the balancier. The higher you >set the letoff, therefore, the higher you must raise the drop screw and the >less drop will occur. > >David Love >davidlovepianos@earthlink.net > > > > Ooooo.... ah.. I dont know if I quite agree with this David... tho I certainly know the point you are making... Yamaha teaches this big time. Personally tho.. I find that if the jack and drop screws are engaged just a tad offset with each other. Actually, if you make the appropriate compensations in rep-lever height and jack rest position... you can actually engage the jack first with fine results. Mind you we are talking about very very slight levels of fudge here :) Point being tho that when both are engaged at the exact exact same moment, then the finger feels the combined effect of both within that short period of time letoff takes... where as if they are slightly offset then only part of this starts letoff, and the other part ends it.. Cheers RicB
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