Tyler writes: >It's a shame that someone junked the reproducing action, but I'm told >that serious pianists who can learn to accept the bulging empty case >like these steinways more than their normal analogues because when >rebuilt properly the play "faster" because the keysticks are longer Greetings, I own two of these,(they are in my rental inventory, and have been played by a lot of players). One of them has a 52 gr. DW at C28 and 50 at C40, the other has 50 and 48, respectively. However, the "lighter one" has softer hammers and feels "heavier" to many of the players. I don't hear anybody talking about "faster" actions in these pianos. Which doesn't surprise me, since speed is more due to backcheck distance than anything else. I don't think the longer keysticks speed anything up, A comment from a particularly heavy handed player was that they were easy to play but seemed to run out of power when he really called on them. I ascribe this to a lower the power saturation limit, due to the extra flex to be found in the longer keys. Regards, Ed Foote RPT
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