Dummy weights (was Re: Touchweight)

[Diane Hofstetter]

Same here, my rumor was Kimball...I made one too, the washers don't fall 
over, but I was never satisfied with how level the keys actually got as a 
result of using it.

Roger Weisensteiner once told me how they really leveled keys in the Kimball 
factory, the blind techs did it...by feel!


>From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Dummy weights (was Re: Touchweight)
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:50:19 -0500 (CDT)
>
>
> >
> >I can see the Whurlie idea working if one uses BIG washers or fender
> >washers.  How to keep them upright?
> >
>
>The one I made uses 1 3/8" OD, 9/16" ID washers on a 3/8" rod.They're
>corralled by washers at each end held by the machine screw in the end of 
>the
>tubing. There's enough slack at the end of the washer stack to let them
>slide up and down relative to each other in use, but not enough to let them
>flop over. They stay upright just fine. Back when I made mine, the rumor 
>was
>that it was a Kimball invention, like it would matter.
>
>  Ron N
>


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