Some easy to accomplish suggestions to correct a light touch. 1) An easy and quick way to increase the weight of the hammers, is to tape a large nail with masking tape on top of the shaft, with the head almost touching the hammer. I did this on my Bluthner, and increased the weight of the hammers (as weighed individually with an electronic scale used for mail) from 0.3, to 0.4 ounces. A smaller nail can be used as this is quite a drastic increase. The resulting touch was much heavier. However this put a lot of strain on the repetition spring, changing the touch too much, and because of this I decided to undo it. The whole process can be done, and undone very quickly, and the resulting weight increase measured accurately. 2) I elected instead to tape a piece of thin felt (from a sheet with adhesive backing costing .99/sheet in any crafts store), in the back of each key, on the damper lever key cushion, (at the point where it raises the dampers), in a way that the dampers are lifted almost immediately as one presses the key, thus giving a beautiful firm touch to the action, by using the weight of the dampers thus increasing the resistance and resulting in a heavier touch. As far as measuring the key resistance with weights, the easiest way to do it, is to use a small bottle of woman's nail polish that would fit on top of a key, after weighing it and removing or adding polish to the desired weight. One can prepare two or more bottles with a premeasured desired weight. Stephen Papastephanou --
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