[pianotech] Hammer Blow

[David Love]

Surely you don't imagine that I wrote that the pianist should determine the aftertouch???  Try reading it again.  What I wrote was that there is a difference between how accurately we like to set the aftertouch and how the key stroke feels when it bottoms out.  If your pianists prefer a harder landing then by all means use them, in fact you can probably go even firmer if you want.  So far, many of the pianists I work with who have tried them don't.  People should be aware.  I know everyone loves to jump on the latest greatest thing but it simply isn't always.  Often it's something that suits us as technicians but doesn't necessarily suit pianists who actually play the instruments.  There is a point of diminishing returns with how firm the punching can or should be, was my point.  At some point it crosses the line of being uncomfortable and/or noisy.  In my experience these punchings more often than not cross the line.  YMMV.

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed Foote
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:26 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hammer Blow

Greetings,
      I like the Crescendo punchings. I set dip by aftertouch, so my sense of touch is the determining factor,(what, you think I would let a 
pianist determine that?).   The softness of other punchings is as easy 
to press consistently,(with enough years practice) as the Crescendos, but the firmer punchings seem to impress pianists with a sense of evenness and security.  I have replaced the punchings without doing anything else and gotten a real positive response from a professional player who owns the piano.
Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Erwin <erwinspiano at aol.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 10:04 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hammer Blow


  >>How about others out there? Any comments,feedback with these vs. 
other front punchings