<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Hamburg B Key Inertia</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Recently I saw a Hamburg B (1970s) on which the keys had been front weighted and back weighted on the last few notes before the bass/tenor break.  Say notes 16 or 17-20.  It looks as if they were trying to increase the inertia on the last few keys before the break.  Any ideas about why they would do this?<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Phil Ford</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>No Phil I haven't. But I've seen the same oddity on Samick grands. In the case of the Samicks their actions are manufactured with wippen assist springs. A possible explanation for the Samicks might be that the key board was first weighted with a generic distribution of weights, but the assist springs were heavily loaded<font color="#0000FF"> (as they often are on new wippens which haven't been set up)</font> so as to result in a very light touch weight. A shoddy approach to increasing the touch weight to a 'normal' specification after the event might be to add more weights into the back of the key.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY</b></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><i>   </i></font><font color="#0000FF"><i>Grand Piano Manufacturers</i></font><font color="#000000"><br> _______________________</font></div> <div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><br> </font><font color="#000000">Web http://overspianos.com.au</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">mailto:info@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</font></div> </body> </html>