Relocating capstans

[Scott Thile]

 Tom Saye writes:

>Our school has a Steinway B from the 1980's  which has terrible
>downweight/upweight problems. The keys in the bass are full of leads, and
>we are still getting downweight between 65-70 grams in that section with
>barely any upweight at all, improving to 60 grams in the treble with
>marginal upweight.

Tom, are you sure you don't have a friction problem as well as a capstan
position problem?

I would at least check for excesive friction if you haven't already.



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