Adjusting touch weight

[David Andersen]

On May 17, 2007, at 9:42 PM, David Love wrote:

>  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).

With all due respect, I do, because I prepped about 100 C series  
grands between 1999 and 2005, and a number of them felt "too light"  
before proper setup, and it was because of a combination of factors--- 
shallow key travel, short blow distance, unregulated springs, far  
distal jack position, hard and "clangy" hammers (more of a  
psychoacoustic phenomenon---but when the clang is removed, and the  
attack is softened, most players experience the action being "stiffer."

I'm certainly not saying this is the fix the player needs,  but if  
the piano---which I'd be willing to bet a tidy sum was not prepped at  
all from the dealer---is not regulated, voiced, and tuned properly,  
with strings level and hammers mated, you're starting your clip  
install or lead removal from a shaky platform.  So to speak.

David Andersen

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