<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Doug, keep in mind the TouchRail by Scott Jones. The unit with heavy springs will easily reduce the down weight by 20 grams. If you are going to the SERC in Charlotte, John Chapman and I will be doing a class on the TouchRail and we will have a demo piano.<div> <div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 6, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Douglas Gregg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>OK, Good information. I was at the shop so could not respond right<br>away. The DWs are now in the 60-65 range and the UW is 35-40. The<br>regulation is now very good and it pretty well makes up for the weight<br>in playablility. The suggestion of heavy hammers is probably correct.<br>This rebuild was mostly a bucket of parts. No thought or regulation<br>went into it. It may have been done in Mexico, don't know. I will find<br>out tomorrow when I deliver it. Long story short, with some<br>lubrication and some more fine regulation, the teacher was very<br>satisfied. There was no money in the budget for a full touch weight<br>work up anyway.<br><br>I am interested in trying the shifting of the fulcrum with veneer<br>strips behind the BP.. I did some regulation on a 70's S&S O a year or<br>so ago that was even heavier. It was not friction in that case.<br>Probably heavy hammers in that case too. The piano was bought at a<br>S&S factory sale and was never played (or regulated properly). For 40<br>years. It was a living room ornament. After being donated to a<br>church, at the first concert, the musician left cursing and in a sweat<br>and never returned. It is much better now with regulation but still<br>heavier than a D. It was built in the dark days when Birmingham Oil<br>Company owned S&S. Quality control must have gone out the window. My<br>brother-in-law who works for S&S thought it might have been a custom<br>special that was ordered with heavy hammers and returned and later<br>sold in a factory sale.<br><br>Back to the issue of the repetition spring. I know that that does not<br>come into play with measuring down weight but it seems that it could<br>add to the heavy feel. Has anyone else thought about this design that<br>Baldwin uses. It seems to add a lot of pressure on the back of the<br>jack to keep the repetition lever loaded.<br><br>Thanks<br>Doug Gregg<br>Classic Piano Doc<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>