I 'spec someone does ...

[Farrell]

I 'spec someone does ..."Does anyone out there have a set of reg specs for this piano or know where I could reasonable get them?"

Regulation specs can provide a good starting point for an action regulation, but depending on individual action geometry, one really needs to "let the action tell you" what specs will work best with that particular action/piano. One can produce a poorly performing action by sticking to a set of regulation specs.

But you knew that.......  ;-)

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 

  Tuned a Hyundai G-82 grand, today. First I'd ever seen or even heard of? (We live a sheltered life, here in the boondocks, i.e., the Ozarks.)


  Pretty case, has potential I think, but regulation is horrible (see horror story below) and it badly needs voicing after that.



  Meat of Message (pork, mostly):  Does anyone out there have a set of reg specs for this piano or know where I could reasonable get them?



  Horror story, the worst note: F5 blocking against the strings "chingank" sort of sound. Found the lettoff button screwed to the top, no letoff at all. "Who would do this," I ask, "and why?" Tried to set a letoff, but the hammer failed to reset on every blow, i.e., dead note, no play. Hmmm ...



  Further investigation finds the jack way too high, about 3 mm above the rep window. No wonder someone who couldn't/didn't diagnose the problem correctly messed with the letoff trying to get it to reset--I'm surprised he/she left the front rail punchings in place! Adjusted jack height and all is well-or at least the note plays, lets off, and resets. The only excuse I can give our mystery tuner is that who the heck would expect a key regulation item to be so far out of whack? And why would it? Given the piano's one-owner history, it almost had to come from the factory or dealer this way.



  Alan Barnard
  Salem, MO
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