John, Doesn't somebody produce a repair kit for balance holes. A router-type drill bit and wooden washer/insert? Heard of it? >>There is so much mumbo-jumbo to wade through... When I did my first >>key re-proportion job I made new quarter sawn maple shoes. I got no >>end of blabbering from experienced techs warning that they would >>click and make noises. >> >>They didn't make noise, but it sure made me second guess what I >>was doing. JD, in your experience do these harder balance holes >>tend to make a racket? > > Mumbo-jumbo is the word, if it's not hocus-pocus. The only reason for > using plain pine keys on a concert piano, liable to be attacked by > keyboard-pushing prima donnas, is to cut costs. And Kluge had used a > particularly soft piece of cheap fir for this keyboard; to keep > things quiet? More likely to keep Steinways sweet with a low price. > Same thing with Renner. You should see the jack spoons on this > action. They bear no resemblance to the originally conceived spoon, > which had a neat flat face; instead the button felt wraps round their > mis-shapen face so that I can guess now I have regulated the jacks > I'll need to go back in a year's time to take up the re-settling. > > JD > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew > Dorset DT11 0HX * England > Phone: +44 1202 731 031 > Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 > ______________________________________________________________________ > >
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