A well tempered tale

David Love davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:45:58 -0700


David:

Just trying to inject a little levity into what has so far been a humorless
topic.  I was hoping people would take it that way.

I moved the capstan because the original line was off plus the overall key
ratio was too high pushing the action ratio higher than it should be.
People had complained about the action being too heavy.  It was overleaded
compensating for very heavy hammer.  I reset the cap line to .53 key ratio
which I combined with a 17 mm knuckle.  That lowered the action ratio to the
5.8 range.  I tapered the new hammers to  reduce the strike weight a bit
from what was there to where I could set the balance weight at 38 grams with
85-90% of front weight maximum.  Did not change the wippens, Renner USA type
were fine with the exception that the balancier leather had gotten hard and
noisy and needed to be changed.

David Love

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: September 20, 2002 4:33 PM
Subject: RE: A well tempered tale


David,

Me thinks you will be getting a few posts in the next few hours...;-]

David I.

PS...didn't see you at Stanford today, but I was in early and out by
lunch time...liked what you did to the Campbell Steinway.  I would be
interested in how you determined where to move the capstan?  I would
guess you couldn't move any more forward than you had wippen
cushion...or did you change the wippens?

David I.



     ----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
     From: David Love <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
     To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
     Received: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:18:32 -0700
     Subject: A well tempered tale

     >I tuned an Ibach Transposing piano for the first time yesterday.
Quite an interesting
     >contraption.  As I pondered what type of temperament to put on it\, my
mind began to
     >race with the possibilities.  A nice well temperament with the flick
of a wrist could easily
     >become a reverse well, sideways well, upside down well, backwards well
or,
     >what-the-well well.    As I booted up my Verituner a voice from the
back room called out,
     >"By the way, the last guy put this weird temperament on it, just tune
it the normal way".

     >Probably would have tuned it in ET anyway.

     >David Love



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