This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dave, You raise some interesting questions. I have a question. If you only wanted to delay the damper lift, why didn't you adjust the spoons? Then there would have been no change in damper regulation (twist etc.), capstans or sostenuto. If the result was not good, you could bend them back. Just wondering. Setting the lift at 2/3 hammer travel seems a bit far. One possible negative. The piano might sound a little dry (less resonant), because the damper is stopping the string sooner as the key is released. I have heard this complaint from pianists when the damper timing is set late. Perhaps a Seiler has so much resonance that this is no problem. There are so many discussions on this list about weight, but the issue of checking damper timing rarely comes up. Yet it has a big influence on the apparent weight. I'm glad to hear you are trying this. Have others tried the piano since your adjustments? How to they like the results? Keep us informed. Jerry Cohen, RPT New Jersey Chapter -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Piannaman@aol.com Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:30 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: raising damper lift to lighten touch Far flung friends and fellow techs, One nice thing about doing occasional store work is that there are lots of guinea pigs to try things out on before I do it in a customer's home. Yesterday the manager of one of my store accounts said he had a customer who loved the Seiler 186, but the touch was a tad too heavy for her tastes. I suggested the least invasive procedure I could think of--raising the point of damper lift. He said okay. I regulated the dampers by loosening all the wire block screws and lowering the wires, using the tray(raised to the proper point) as a guide. I brought the lift point to where the hammer was about 2/3 of the way to the string. To the touch, it felt like lift was beginning just before letoff. I fine regulated them by adjusting the capstans. (still doesn't look quite as good as a Seiler factory job, but it's not bad at all). Also needing regulation were: The pedal rod The trap-stop capstan(what DO you call that, anyway?) The damper upstop rail The sostenuto rod In the end, the touch weight was around 5 grams lighter, possibly a tad more. It felt quite good, and all of the dampers had plenty of clearance. Would regulating spoons or capstans be far more difficult or offer other pitfalls? This was my first experience with this particular job, and it came out pretty well, but I'd certainly appreciate any suggestions from those of you who have more experience doing this. Thanks, Dave (back on the list after being glued to the Tour de France) Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/87/97/d8/d6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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