heavy touch

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Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:15:59 EDT


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In a message dated 9/8/2004 9:58:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hullfam5@yahoo.com writes:

> My experience has been that a piano that has not been
> played for a number of years may be sluggish at first.
> Some of this sluggishness may clear up with playing,
> but if the touch is just heavy, I don't likely to be
> due to not being played.
> Heavy touch is more an issue of things like damper
> timing, key leading, regulation, tight key bushings,
> tight hammer flange pinning/bushing, etc.  It is good
> to just begin going down a list of possibilities for
> why and check each one to find the cause.  Sometimes
> you can just feel in your finger where the problem is.
> 

YES, well put.

Julia, 
Reading, PA

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