On 14-mrt-2007, at 23:38, RicB wrote: > Hi folks > > I ran into a symptom I haven't identified before. I was bedding an > older Steinway D today, and made sure all three rails were good and > done in the right order... yet I was still getting too much hammer > bounce in the bass section on a hard blow. The rest of the piano > was just fine... just the bass section had this problem. Started > troubleshooting by first lifting the whippen up with my finger and > hitting the key hard to see if there was any bounce... nope.. Then > I lifted the hammer with a shank hook and hit the key hard... still > no bounce.... Then I noticed that when I lowered the shank enough > for the back check to make contact with the hammer tail... the > neighboring hammers started to bounce. When I let the hammer go > into full check the full effect of neighboring bounce kicked in. > > I haven't managed to pounce out what the cure for this is. > Checking distance is 15 mm... action is reasonably well > regulated... drop is a bit deep but letoff, dip and aftertouch > amounts are all well within good tolerances. > > Any advice on the matter is of course very welcome. > > Cheers > RicB The funny thing is that if one becomes a plumber, making money is so much easier. I wish I had become a plumber! My karma is heavy, apparently. friendly greetings from André Oorebeek Antoni van leeuwenhoekweg 15 1401 VW Bussum the Netherlands tel : 0031 35 6975840 tel : 0031 652388 008 concertpianoservice at planet.nl www.concertpianoservice.nl where music is, no harm can be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070314/54773b76/attachment.html
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