on 10/6/00 11:52 PM, Richard Moody at remoody@midstatesd.net wrote: >> I am dealing with a new D like this now. Came in with keydip way over "spec", >> blow distance way under "spec", and if one lowers the hammer line, then the >> back of the hammer felts rebound against the backchecks way before the shanks >> could get down to the cushions. >> >> Kent Swafford >> > Wild guess, more for education than edification. The hammers came out of the > cauls too fat? ---ric I put off responding until after the inaugural concert on this piano, which was last night. It went well. I had expressed some concern to the powers that be concerning the time it would take to prepare the piano for this concert; the reply came back that the preparation shouldn't take very much time since the piano was brand new. (!) Action problems tend to be combinations of effects ganging up with each other rather than single problems. There is no reason to think these hammers are any different from any other Steinway hammers. However, your question, ric, is still a correct one -- even if these hammers are not "fatter" than normal, you can't really say the hammers are not too fat because, after the hammers were trimmed down, the action works fine. See my reply to Ed Foote.
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