At 3:32 PM -0500 7/2/00, Avery Todd wrote: >Hi Bill, > > I guess, as sometimes happens, I didn't make myself completely clear. :-) > >>At 07:02:52 -0500, 7/1/00 Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net> wrote: >> >Lower hammers give less aftertouch and higher gives more. >> >You're not using a predetermined hammer blow distance this way >> >because there are some pianos that it just won't work to set the blow >> >distance to a predetermined measurement. I agree. On some pinos the action ratio is so low (say below 5.5:1) that I have to raise the dip to 1-5/8". >I agree. I think the confusion is that I arrive at that "fixed" >measurement a different way than you do. But once arrived >at, it "does" stay constant. D'accorde. >Hope I've clarified what I was trying to say a little. >Avery I didn't doubt you at all. Bill Ballard, RPT New Hampshire Chapter, PTG "You'll make more money selling my advice than following it" ...........Steve Forbes, quoting his father, Malcom
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