Lower front weight first?

[Jenneetah]

At 8:48 PM -0700 9/6/04, Bob Hull wrote:
>I have put new hammers on an action and I'm working on
>getting the strike weight smoothed. There are a good
>many keys that exceed the front weight ceiling. The
>leading doesn't "look" excessive like some leading
>I've seen before.

Two ways of reading it: 1.) the eyeball-distant memory feedback loop 
and, 2.) Stanwood's Metrology. It will be interesting for you to 
correlate the two as you're learning this new approach. If you decide 
that you like the latter, you'll spend less time being distract by 
the former.

>A strike weight ratio of 5.5 is what I understand to
>be best for this piano.

It's what we'd like any piano to have. (Under certain circumstances, 
there will be exceptions.)

>
>Should the front weight issue be adressed first even
>if it has to be adjusted again? The strike weights
>will need to be adjusted mostly upwards.

I'd do your SWs first because the FWs will be set according to what 
you have chosen for the SWs. (Whether or not the SW curve you're 
aiming for turns out to be workable on this piano. Even if you decide 
that you want a lower SW curve for this piano, the FWs will wait 
until the SWs are set.)

Keep those questions coming. There are plenty of people on this list 
to handle them.