This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Carl & Terry, Bed the keyframe, adjust the glides and set samples of dip in the piano before you bring the keyboard into the shop. Then when you clamp the keyframe to your bench, use shims to duplicate the dip on your samples. Don't adjust the glides in the shop. When you take the keyboard back you should be pretty accurate in the piano and just have touchup to do. Best, Dale Dale Probst, RPT Ward & Probst, Inc. email: wardprobst@cst.net (940)691-3682 voice (940) 691-6843 fax -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Carl Meyer Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 1:07 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: key leveling -- crown? Thanks Jon. Didn't think of that Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG Santa Clara, California cmpiano@home.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Page <mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net> To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Re: key leveling -- crown? At 10:29 AM 11/18/2001 -0800, you wrote: Sure sounds like something is moving. If you find out just what, I'd like to know. I always clamp the key frame to make sure it is in contact with the bench. Sometimes even in the middle of the front rail. I haven't actually leveled that many keys. It's more fun to make tools than to use them. I'm only half joking when I say maybe you should use go bars all over the frame. The problem, as someone suggested, in leveling in the piano, is that there is no room to install the weights on the backchecks, the stack isn't on (that may affect the height) and you have to sit so low that it is uncomfortable. I'm assuming you use the weights hanging off the backchecks. They are probably heavier than the stack. All these small variables add up, but I still feel doing at least the major leveling on the bench is more productive. Especially when you are refelting the whole keybed. Let me know if you come up with any ideas as to why that is happening. Thanks; Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG Santa Clara, California cmpiano@home.com I would like to mention something about the attachment of the clip-on lead weights. They should not be 'hung'_off_the back of the backcheck. This has a tendency to lift the front of the key higher than the weight of the action would, giving it a false height. They should be 'hung'_on_the front side of the backcheck. The action will fit better into the action cavity. Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto: <mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net> jonpage@mediaone.net <mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net> http://www.stanwoodpiano.com <http://www.stanwoodpiano.com/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/83/32/a3/72/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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