Richard, What is the UW & DW with the spring removed? Regards, Jon Page At 11:06 PM 07/16/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Hi list. > >Piano is a Howard baby grand number 358898. Basic symptomatical type problem >is an unbelievably loud clacking action. Have done just about everything I >can in terms of softening knuckles and whippen underfelt, even reduced >hammer mass a bit, with only slight reduction in noise. > >Having just purchased a Stanwood kit I got the following numbers for you all >to work with. (I'll give you the numbers for key # 32, the basic tendencies >hold for the whole piano) > >Strike Weight is 10.2 g >Strike Weight ratio is 3.6 !!! >Front Weight is 10.3 >Key Weight Ratio is 0.54 >Whippen Weight Ratio is 17.5 >Balance Weight is 36 >Upweight is 26 >Down Weight is 45 <snip> Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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