Thanks for your post Larry. PianoDisk should be able to send me one of those mylar strips. One think to clarify - Mine isn't a player. It looks like it originally was set up to be a player,(it has material removed from the key bed under the back of the keys for a solenoid rail) but it does have a Quiet Time system that I retrofitted into it when it was at the local music store. Your post makes me think that I may be able to adjust the attack curve on individual notes (allowing me to "voice" the TFT strips individually) if I know the right sequence of notes to hit. This gives me hope! Thanks for taking the time to share your expertise! On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Larry Fisher RPT <larryf at pacifier.com>wrote: > Ok Ryan, those finger things are TFT strips. Touch Film Technology. The > faster you bend them, the greater the electronic pulse it creates. They > need to be preloaded by about 3 to 5 mm. This is done by tilting the entire > strip accomplished by adding shims under the mounts. I've used center rail > punchings for this. Make sure the previously mentioned action regulation > and system alignments are done first. > > As for the mylar strip from PianoDisc, for me to explain the functions > verbally would be a huge bunch of chatter. The strip is the length of the > keyboard. It has printed on it the sequences of keys you press to enter the > software of the TFT hardware so you can adjust the attack curves, volume > differences between sharps and naturals, and a choice few other things. > Providing you did a real smart job of installing the player and have aligned > it well, you may be experiencing an over sensitive attack curve. You can't > get good results if the player isn't installed properly!! > > I've been thinking of taking a picture of this strip and adding it to my > website. It's on a rather long list of things I'd rather do like kayaking > with fine babes in unusually high water around the area. > > Lar > > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100615/8ece8aa8/attachment.htm>
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