I would look at the capstan position. Moving it towrds the balance rail can lower touch weight and lessen the distance of wippen travel. Maybe even solve friction problems. What happens is you get more key dip or less blow distance. Does it need either of those? In other words is blow too long for a short dip? This helps correct that KR On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Joe Goss <imatunr at srvinet.com> wrote: > Hi, > Dealing with a very poorly made china grand with serious problems. And > wondering what the best position for the wippen lever at rest. > Would it be ______________ or slightly tipped down to lessen friction of > capstan on the heel > Jack is blocking in the window felt and not that much room to remove any > felt. Considering moving the knuckles 1/8" toward the hammers. > This would I presume lower the touch weight. > Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT > imatunr at srvinet.com > www.mothergoosetools.com > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100228/a1c4a68d/attachment.htm>
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