Adjusting touch weight

[David Love]

While being a thorough diagnostician is always a good idea, expeditiousness
is too.  A new C7 that feels too light and needs to be made to feel heavier
at the players request might, I suppose, with a 6 hours setup job be made to
feel heavier.  That's assuming you were able to diagnose that the 6 hour set
up job would accomplish what the player has fairly clearly stated is the
problem which was that the action needed to be made to feel heavier
(admittedly, I'm not sure what I would do during those six hours in this
case).  Or, you could spend an hour adding miniclips or "knocking out a
lead" in order to determine whether the Church (read low budget) player
liked the change.  Taking a lead out or adding a clip is easily reversible
in a short amount of time.  

Lower inertia with the removal of a lead will not, btw (response to previous
post), make the action feel lighter, though it may feel more responsive
(difference there).  Sometimes the simple approach is better and sometimes
players do communicate what they want, and, of course, sometimes they don't.


David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Andersen
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:05 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Adjusting touch weight

This is good...you have to do a lot more listening to the player,  
being at the piano with him/her, and make sure the piano is in  
regulation, among other things; you're a long way from knocking lead  
out of the keys, brother. You need to be what I call a psychological  
spielart dignostician...ya need to find out what the player is  
feeling, what they're not, and how that translates into a practical  
solution. If the piano hasn't been maintained, or prepped if it's  
new, you could change the perception of "light" and "heavy"  
significantly by a thorough setup---about 6 hours of work.
David Andersen

On May 17, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote:

> The C-7 is the church piano?
>
> Fix the piano she plays at home--you know, the one with the heavy  
> action. :-)
>
> Or, it could be a voicing issue disguised as touch.
>
>
> Barbara Richmond
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "martin cipolla"  
> <pianodoctor at msn.com>
> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:56 AM
> Subject: Adjusting touch weight
>
>
>> I have a church client with a new Yamaha C7.  She feels the action  
>> is "too Light".  What can be done to make the action feel heavier ?
>>
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