<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Absolutely Mike, if heavy hammers are indeed the problem.<div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Mike Spalding wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 9/6/2011 3:11 PM, Douglas Gregg wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Back to the issue of the repetition spring. I know that that does not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">come into play with measuring down weight but it seems that it could<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">add to the heavy feel. Has anyone else thought about this design that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Baldwin uses. It seems to add a lot of pressure on the back of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">jack to keep the repetition lever loaded.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Doug Gregg<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Classic Piano Doc<br></blockquote>Doug,<br><br>I suspect the reason you are sensing a lot of spring force on the jack is that it has to be set very strong for the rep lever to support the heavy hammers. If you were to replace the hammers with ones that gave you a down weight in the 50 gram range, and regulated the rep springs appropriately, the jack spring would feel right.<br><br>Mike<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>