---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Whats your key ratio David ?.. You might be lucky here and be able to get away with a quick move of the capstans in a couple of mils. If you are regulating well at a shallow dip then thats a good indicator that you have some room to move here. Otherwise... it would be helpfull to have a few othere parameters like Strike Weights, knuckle placement and radius, Front Weights and the like. Cheers RicB "David M. Porritt" wrote: > I have a Baldwin SF-10 here on which I just measured the > action weight. C4 is 60 grams down, 45 grams up! > Friction -- obviously is good -- down weight bad. I hate > adding lots of lead to the keys, but on this piano there > are only 3 weights in the bass section, 2 at C4, only 1 in > the upper treble, and actually 2 in the _back_ of C8. It > appears that they did straight pattern leading on this > one. I can add 1 - 2 weights to each key and bring it > down to 44 at A0, 42 at C4 and 40 at B7 (I'd probably just > take out a back weight on C8). There is a point of > diminishing returns on some actions where you can reduce > downweight by adding leads but the additional inertia > makes it feel to the player as though it is as heavy as it > was before. Does anyone think I'd get into inertia > problems adding this amount of lead? dave > > _____________________________ > David M. Porritt > dporritt@mail.smu.edu > Meadows School of the Arts > Southern Methodist University > Dallas, TX 75275 > _____________________________ > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7b/f7/8d/f4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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