I didn't see any replies on this. It's a great question -- any takers? --Cy-- Cy Shuster, RPT Albuquerque, NM www.shusterpiano.com On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:58 PM, David Love wrote: > While working with one of my colleagues to help him through the ins > and outs of the Stanwood basics we got into a brief discussion about > what is desirable from the pianist’s point of view: uniform balance > weight or uniform downweight. It’s easy enough to set up the > balance weight system so that it gradually increases in proportion > to the ever decreasing friction in order to achieve a uniform > downweight. The charts below illustrates that. I’m curious for > those of you who use the balance weight system whether you ever > target a uniform downweight instead and what the overall reaction > is. I typically do not, though I’m considering trying it on the > next action. I do sometimes get comments that the upper end of the > piano is too light and it seems like a reasonable approach. One > side benefit of doing it this way is a higher up weight in the upper > end of the piano which, presumably, would reap benefits in terms of > repetition. > > The key didn’t copy for some reason so it is as follows: (if the > charts don’t appear open the email in html rather than plain text). > > Blue circles are down weight > Red diamonds are balance weight > Blue Triangles are up weight > Red circles are friction > Note 1 is on the far left, 88 on the far right > > > <image001.png> > > <image002.png> > > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090928/ab89990a/attachment.htm>
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