[CAUT] Fortepiano key noise

[Dave Doremus]

They should not move any more fore and aft then 
they should side to side. In the viennese action 
its also possible that action noise seems to be 
key noise since everything is so intimately 
connected.


On 4/20/07, johnsond quoth:

>Hi-
>
>We have a very nice Graf copy that is only about 
>5 years old and next week we have David Breitman 
>coming to play and teach on that piano.  
>The instrument is not used a lot, and never 
>moved from the hall which has good climate 
>control.  I just noticed while tuning that it 
>seems to have more key noise than I remembered, 
>so took a closer look and was surprised by the 
>fore/aft movement of key pulley.   I haven't had 
>to do much key work on one of these, so was 
>wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to what 
>is normal.  Is it unreasonable to expect these 
>keys to have no pull like a modern piano?   It's 
>a beautiful instrument otherwise...... 
>thanks.,
>
>
>Dennis Johnson
>St. Olaf College