---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 24-aug-04, at 22:55, Ryan Sowers wrote: > I knew I'd get in trouble for my comments! : ) > =A0 > =A0It is true that you can hear the differenceI between hammers that=20= > swing 4 and hammers that swing 8. The hammers with less friction will=20= > spend a slightly less amount of time on the string. The more tightly=20= > pinned ones will stay on a microsecond longer dampening out the=20 > highest partials. Is the hammer getting off the string faster a bad=20 > thing? I don't think so. Of course for voicing purposes consistancy is=20= > the key. > =A0 > If the flange is well sized, burnished, and lubricated it can=20 > swing=A08-10 (I'm not talking treble hammers here) =A0times yet still = be=20 > firm enough to prevent excessive side play. Alignment, traveling and=20= > hammer to string mating will keep the hammer on course. > =A0 > Less friction =3D greater upweight and lower downweight > =A0 > Lastly, as a player I just like the feel of a more free action (if the=20= > voicing and regulating are good). Thats what made me a follower of=20 > Darrel Fandrich's work. I played one of his grand pianos at a national=20= > conference: I felt someone had turned up my playing ability a notch! > =A0 > I still maintaing that *very free* is not the same as *loose*. > =A0 > > > Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter > Pianova Piano Service > Olympia, WA > > Do you Yahoo!? > Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. I once (a long time ago) made a rather thorough investigation myself of=20= all the friction points in a Steinway O grand action. This instrument played so heavy, it was impossible to use my weights=20 (total of 60 grams) and measure the downweight as the keys just would=20 not go down. I measured everything carefully and treated every friction point one by=20= one with CLP and McLube. I measured and treated measured again : all centers - the repetition springs - the front rail and balance rail=20= pins - the wippen repetition lever - the knuckles. I did good job and it took me quite a long time to measure it, write it=20= down, treat it, measure it, and write it down again. In the end I brought the downweight of most keys to a standard factory=20= level of 47 grams exactly. That in itself was truly amazing. What was even more amazing, was the fact that the dynamics of the=20 instrument had changed completely too. It sounded very loud and=20 extremely brilliant, almost painfully brilliant. It of course needed re-regulation, tuning, and voicing, and afterwards=20= the customer complained that she had to learn to play piano again.....=20= smile..... antares ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2650 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ec/76/db/dd/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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