[CAUT] F..riction

[Alan Eder]

Ed,


What is the range of aftertouch you set (i. e., least to most)?  What amounts do you find work best with certain makes and/or models (one of your criteria for variation in aftertouch)?


Thanks so much,


Alan Eder





-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org>
To: caut <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 5:19 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] F..riction


Extremely clever, Ed.

Susan Kline

On 12/10/2010 2:55 PM, Ed Foote wrote:
>  I begin by placing a blue and pink punching at the bottom of the 
> front pins.  Then use cardboard, etc. to get a measured keydip of say, 
> .390"-.400".  I do this with a weighted touch block.  After regulating 
> everything but aftertouch, I go back through and using a spacer whose 
> thickness is the amount of aftertouch I want, (it varies from pianist 
> to pianist and piano to piano), and either add or subtract up to .010" 
> to make the aftertouch even.  If that degree of change won't do it, I 
> will alter the hammer blow a bit from note to note to get there.  It 
> makes the irregularity invisible. 




 
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