Heavy Hammers / High Ratio

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Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:57:26 EDT


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In a message dated 9/24/2003 12:42:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes:
Hi folks..

Been thinking about this  particular action configuration a bit and have
a few questions swimming around in my mind. Configuring an action such
that it has heavy hammers with a high ratio is going to cause the need
for lots of counterbalancing... and quite often ends up being in the
form of strong somewhat randomly regulated assist springs. This
combination of high ratio, high hammermass, and low key mass has on the
surface of it a couple interesting features. Its essentially the only
way you can achieve high top action inertia against low key inertia
while providing high hammer acceleration for key acceleration.... which
further expands the ratio of hammer for key inertia. It would also seem
to provide for the greatest change in required finger force (ie
<<heaviness>>)  from ppp to fff  play.... and perhaps thats not such a
bad thing ????

Assuming one took the time to do a bang up job of evening out strike
weights and key leading... and real even assist spring adjustments....
what are the downsides of this setup ?

RicB
  Flat knuckels from high hammer weight?
  Dale

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