On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Farrell wrote: > I'm working on an 1890s Knabe grand. Everything in the action is > new except rails and keyframe (both of which have been rebuilt) and > action brackets. From the pix, it's clear that this is one of these 19th century actions with extremely tall string heights. The line from the Rep center to the cap/heel contact looks almost as steeply inclined than the line from the hammer center to the knuckle/jack contact. The further from horizontal is the swing of your levers, the more of the the arc's motion ends up in the horizontal vector rather than the vertical. It's a form of action inefficiency aggravated by tall string heights. The only solution is to raise the keybed (......what is this guy, nuts or sumpin'?) On Jul 3, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Farrell wrote: > How can you be so smart to know that this action had lots of lead > in the keys? ;-) On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Farrell wrote: > FW: 36.25 (0.966 of Stanwood's maximum FWs) Speaking of which, you didn't list a SW. (Or was that the "F= 11.5") Mr. Bill
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