action ratios

David Love davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:11:19 -0800


My first reaction is to say that I would look at it as a voicing problem.
What kind of hammers are you using?

David Love


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stéphane Collin" <collin.s@skynet.be>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: November 01, 2002 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: action ratios


Hi Richard, David, Bill, etc.

I've been following the thread with much interest.
May I ask an innocent but pragmatic question (I think related to this topic)
?
More than often, I encounter this problem when rebuilding Bechstein pianos :
I get the sound right, I get the touch feel ok, but the whole instrument
always happens to be difficult to control, as the dynamic output switches
too quickly from PP to mF (I mean :  the dynamic shades are not progressive
enough.  Very soft playing is fantastic, very loud also, but progressively
crossing from soft to loud happens to be difficult to control, as sound gets
loud too quickly, which is musically not desirable at all).
How would you all cure this problem ?

Thanks to all for great expertise.

Stéphane Collin.


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