Jiffy weights to increase touchweight

[ed440 at mindspring.com]

Julia-
This is a good time to try putting binder clips - Office Depot#429-415 - on the hammer shanks just below the hammer head.  Put the clip on the shank, then remove the wire handles. Play for a while and you may find an interesting change in the piano. More effort to play and more control over the dynamics.
Ed Sutton

-----Original Message-----
>From: KeyKat88 at aol.com
>Sent: Dec 28, 2006 9:05 PM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Jiffy weights to increase touchweight
>
>Greeetings,...This is a personal problem:
>
>              When I tune a grand and try to play it afterwards, I have 
>trouble playing it well, as my fingers are not strong enough because they are 
>"babied" by the light touchweight of my own personal Yamaha at home. 
>        I have a Yamaha U3 circa 1979. (Japan and not a 'wet' piano) I am 
>trying to increase the touchweight because I want to strengthen my fingers for 
>when I obtain a grand.  Will jiffy weights have an adverse/bad effect on the 
>springs or eventually cause other action problems or accellerated wear? 
> I want to keep the Yami in good shape as I want to sell it to raise some 
>money for the long-dreamed-of-grand. Advice suggestions? Thank you.
>
>PS   I dislike the Broadwood tuning on my U3, as soon as the unisons become 
>intolerable I am tuning the ValOtti.....which,  I  LOVE.... especially on my 
>old upright ...(but probably wont sound as good on the U3 because of the moderne 
>scaling design)
>
>Happy New Year Everybody!!
>Julia Gottshall
>Rookie of 3 1/2 years
> Reading ,Pa