Dittos, That's the Steinway way, "winking the hammers" Andrew Anderson At 03:02 PM 9/25/2006, you wrote: > JD writes: > ><< Have you got the proper lost motion at the fly? In other words does > >the cradle support the hammer very slightly above the jack? This > >lost motion should be barely perceptible when you tap the key > >lightly, but you must have lost motion so that the fly can return > >under the roller without impediment. >> > >Greetings, > I have to respectfully disagree with this. Grand piano actions work >wonderfully with no lost motion, at all. If there is any lost >motion, there will >never be a straight hammer line as well as accelerated wear of the knuckle( >from the impact of the jack hitting it rather than pushing it to start. > We were taught at North Bennett to set the balancier so that we could >feel the jack scraping, ever so slightly, across the leather of the >knuckle when >the hammer was at rest, and I have never had a problem with this causing loss >of repetition. > Uprights are a different matter. >Regards, > >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html >
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