Friction and Balance pins

Jon Page jpage@capecod.net
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:23:52 -0500


I guess some ideas S&S does not adopt. Good thing.
Tight b/r/h = poor regulation and poor repetition . (period)

Jon Page
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At 12:17 PM 11/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
>   This must have been a little while ago or things have changed. All 5
>of the new B's we got last year had major looseness at the balance hole.
>There had to be a LOT of sizing done. One is still not as it should be.
>Someone sure got over-enthusiastic with the easing tool on these!!!!!
>   I'm having a hard time understanding how keys that are too tight at
>the balance hole would increase repetition speed.
>Avery
>>    As a side note,  when I was at the Steinway factory for my "factory
>>training week", J. Pramberger was in charge of production, and the balance
>>rail holes were extremely tight.  I was told this was his idea for
increasing
>>repetition speed!  I found that it was not possible to get a really even key
>>level, and measuring the aftertouch was difficult, since there was a strange
>>feeling of resistance at the very bottom of the keydip.  Anybody else got
any
>>ideas on this??
>>Ed Foote



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