Grand Regulation Compromises

[John Delacour]

At 5:49 PM +1100 11/29/01, Overs Pianos wrote:

>I'd also support those who have reservations about bench regulating. 
>At best, it will get you within the ballpark. This is fine if its an 
>action rebuild, where the first reg is basically to get the thing 
>playing. But for the final result, 'in the piano' is the way to 
>travel.

There are benches and benches and I would never level the keys on the 
bench, but neither would I regulate set-off and drop in the piano but 
always with a rail, working section by section, after setting 
patterns in the piano.  To work any other way is not only very tiring 
and fiddly but also less accurate and more time-consuming.  How does 
anyone get a really accurate set-off and drop by working in the piano?

I regard the key-dip block as a pretty useless and inaccurate piece of kit too.

JD