> Ric writes: > << I have always wondered if this period of time between when the elbow makes > contact with the let off button and the jack actually escapes the knuckle, > has a name. > > Greetings, > Gee Ric, that sounds like you are describing a fistfight or a > jailbreak!! > For this interval, I submit "tripping". That is what is happening to the > jack, and it is what the pianist does when we get it exactly right. Well Ed is trying to make me an escape artist or a hippy. But I am LOL. "Tripping" does has connotations springing from the flower child days in case our next generation of tuners has never seen "Up in Smoke" or "Easy Rider". Actually I like the term "escape artist"---since the escapement period of keystroke, which includes the jack tripping is a very important aspect of of regulation, and it is an "art" to get it "right". Of the key dip, the most perceived or felt in touch is the "escape"; which includes feeling of the first contact of tripping if I may expand on Ed's bon mot, the length of the trip to release, and travel from release to bottom of key dip. We are dealing in micro aspects but that is all part of "tripping". > Conventional wisdom lauds the mutual engagement of the tender and drop > screw, and when it happens, it appears to be a display of elegant > engineering. However, if their engagement is staggered a slight amount, the > perceived resistance to the trip is reduced. > Ed Foote RPT An interesting topic. So which could come first for less perceived resistance? The drop screw contact? ric
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