[CAUT] lighter touchweight

[Jeff Farris]

Alan,

Exactly! I feel the same way, thank you. This piano feels good to me. 
He knows it is in range for most people. He plays a LOT, and is 
perhaps having some arthritis type symptoms. He just wants to know if 
it can be a little better. I thought trying to remove just a hair off 
the hammer tails might do it, but didn't want to go through the 
trouble and expense for him if it still wouldn't be better enough. I 
don't see how it couldn't improve a little. I might experiment with 
that and the shimming the back side of the balance rail. I'll be sure 
to re-check damper lift also.

Jeff


>Jeff,
>
>Part of the reason for my last post is that there are many pianists who'd
>kill for a piano with low 50s and high 20s. I'd be willing to bet that the
>problem lies elsewhere. Too-early damper timing is often the culprit.
>
>Alan
>
>
>-- Alan McCoy, RPT
>Eastern Washington University
>amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
>509-359-4627
>
>
>>  From: Jeff Farris <Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu>
>>  Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
>>  Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:33:53 -0500
>>  To: <CAUT at ptg.org>
>>  Subject: [CAUT] lighter touchweight
>>
>>  Hi List,
>>
>>  I have a customer who wants his 1975 Baldwin 6'8" grand to feel
>>  lighter. It was virtually unused for many years and recently had an
>>  action reconditioning and regulation. It weighed off pretty
>>  reasonable. Downweight averaged low 50's to 50 and upweight averaged
>>  upper 20's to 30. Friction seemed low if anything. There isn't a lot
>>  of lead in the keys, as much as four weights in some of the lower
>>  bass. The hammers have enough "extra" material in the cove to remove
>>  some in an arc shape.  I'm wondering if doing only that would result
>>  in enough weight loss to make much difference. Has anyone done this
>>  procedure not in conjunction with leading, etc. and received good
>>  results?
>>
>>  Sorry if you already received this. I tried to send this message
>>  yesterday from a different source computer and don't know if it went
>>  out. :)
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  --
>>  Jeff Farris
>>  Piano Technician
>>  School of Music
>>  UT Austin
>>  mailto; jfarris at mail.utexas.edu
>>  512-471-0158


-- 
Jeff Farris
Piano Technician
School of Music
UT Austin
mailto; jfarris at mail.utexas.edu
512-471-0158