Adjusting touch weight

[John Ross]

Is she the only one that plays the piano?
Other players, might have a different opinion.
It is not quite like fixing the touch for an 'owner', at a home.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:42 AM
Subject: RE: Adjusting touch weight


> 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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