<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 14-mrt-2007, at 23:38, RicB wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi folks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I ran into a symptom I haven't identified before.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I was bedding an older Steinway D today, and made sure all three rails were good and done in the right order... yet I was still getting too much hammer bounce in the bass section on a hard blow.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The rest of the piano was just fine... just the bass section had this problem.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Started troubleshooting by first lifting the whippen up with my finger and hitting the key hard to see if there was any bounce... nope..<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Then I lifted the hammer with a shank hook and hit the key hard... still no bounce.... Then I noticed that when I lowered the shank enough for the back check to make contact with the hammer tail... the neighboring hammers started to bounce.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>When I let the hammer go into full check the full effect of neighboring bounce kicked in.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I haven't managed to pounce out what the cure for this is.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Checking distance is 15 mm... action is reasonably well regulated... drop is a bit deep but letoff, dip and aftertouch amounts are all well within good tolerances.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Any advice on the matter is of course very welcome.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">RicB</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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