<html> Hi Ted,<br>             A couple of things to check before going to the trouble of weighting off. What is the condition of the key bushings and B/R holes? If badly worn and chucking you will be wasting yor time. Are the action centre pins quite loose? this with the above will make the action feel very light.<br> If all is well, weght off can improve the performance quite a bit, particularly on <i>ppp</i> playing, I have done this on a number of new Baldwin 6000's with great results.<br> Regards roger<br> <br> <br> At 05:31 AM 05/11/98 -0500, you wrote:<br> >Hi List,<br> >  I received a call from a regular customer of mine who owns an Everett<br> >studio upright and wants me to add weights to the keys to make the touch<br> >firmer.  She has just switched to a new piano teacher who owns a grand and<br> >the touch is so much heavier than her piano.  Her piano teacher had weights<br> >added to her piano when she was young and in the learning phase.<br> >   I told her that it's possible that her teacher's piano has a heavier<br> >touch because it is out of regulation.  Anyhow, I stopped by the customer's<br> >place to do a touchweight measurement and sure enough, the touch on her<br> >piano was pretty light.  The downweight was 40 grams and the upweight was<br> >OK at 25 grams.  Now, I need to know if anyone has done this to an upright<br> >before and how should I go about giving her piano a heavier touch.  I feel<br> >that just attaching lead weights to the back of the key would make the<br> >piano uncontrollable,  much like a seesaw with a light person on one end<br> >and a heavy person on the other end.  I have tuned this customer's piano<br> >for the past 10 years and want to keep her.  Any suggestions will be<br> >greatly appreciated.<br> ><br> >Ted Simmons<br> >Merritt Island, FL<br> > <br> <div>Roger Jolly</div> <div>Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre</div> <div>Saskatoon and Regina</div> <div>Saskatchewan, Canada.</div> <div>306-665-0213</div> Fax 652-0505 </html>