Tilted keyboard, WAS YOUNG TECH

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  are at exactly the same elevation off the ...which brings to mind this question:  You are regulating a piano and the keys are at an appropriate height and close to level (maybe one pass until they are as level--under a straightedge--as is humanly possibly).  HOWEVER, A0 is a bit higher (or lower, for that matter) than C8, indicating that the keyboard is slightly tilted from one end to the other.  Do you have any acceptable tolerance for this at all? A little? A lot?  At what point would you bite the bullet and do a lot more key leveling in the interest of having the keyboard "perfectly level" from one end to the other (meaning A0 and C8 are the same elevation above the keybed, and everything in between them is, of course, level as well)?

Clear as mud?

Alan Eder


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jessica Masse <ebonyandivory at on.aibn.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 3:11 pm
Subject: RE: NOW YOUNG TECH

























Hi Alicia,  



Some people on the list are a bit more serious.  But if
you’re looking for help with your piano that fell, I’m sure with a
few photos this list could help you.



 



Because you are a pianists and this is what made me
interested when I started my business at your age.  I’d like to know
what you would think about playing a 7 foot grand piano in a church with a bowled
out floor?  The piano I have been talking about sits at about a 1& a
half inch drop from the treble with the bass end lower.  The bench also
tilts at about the same angle and leans in a bit towards the piano.  



 



The piano had been on leveled stage and now sits on the curved
floor.  I don’t like the way it feels to play it and I think in time
it will wear the parts out more on one side. (key bushings this can happen
anyway from the angle the wood is cut,  and also the damper guide
bushings, and hammer shank centres).



 



Jessica Masse



RPT Piano Technicians Guild



 






 

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