<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">   <p>Delwin D Fandrich wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style>   <blockquote dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:collin.s@skynet.be" title="collin.s@skynet.be">Stéphane Collin</a></div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title="pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</a></div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> June 07, 2003 7:49 AM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Hammer assist spring ?</div>  <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Hello Ric.</font></font> But if indeed there is not a  repetition performance comparable to that of a modern action (which, as Stephen Birkett noted, is seldom really needed in piano litterature), I can tell you that the gain in feel for control, especially at low levels, is tremendous.  No buffers between your finger and the hammer, and you really can regulate set-off at less than 1 mm from the strings without any problem.  I wouldn't want another action in my own piano.</blockquote> <div dir=ltr> </div> <div dir=ltr><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080">This is the part that intrigues me. The ability to set very close letoff and the ability to control the action at pianissimo levels.</font></font></div> <div dir=ltr> </div> <div dir=ltr><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080">This, to me, is the greatest limitation of the so-called "modern" grand action......</font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080"></font></font> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#CC6600">Boy do I aggree with this. Kind of appropriate that this comes up right now as well as I have just run into a pianist / piano combiniation that quite obviously requires of me a level of pppp and control of that which I simply can not regulate into the piano. I can push all the borders to the limit and it still isnt going to satisfy him. He really needs soft springy mallets. :)</font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#CC6600"></font></font> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#CC6600">I have been thinking of  moving the capstan line in just abit. This would drop the ratio a bit giving less hammer / shank speed for same amount of key motion. It would also lessen DW tho... which could well serve to give the opposite effect I want... but I'm tempted anyways. Besides... just happens that the capstans on this Seiler grand are too loose anyways.</font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#CC6600"></font></font> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#CC6600">What do you think ?</font></font></div> <div dir=ltr> </div> <div dir=ltr><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080">Del</font></font></div> <blockquote dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>-- <br>Richard Brekne <br>RPT, N.P.T.F. <br>UiB, Bergen, Norway <br><A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <br><A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <br><A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A> <br>  </body> </html>