Hi, Andre. This is 100% my procedure as well, except I use 10.2mm instead of 10mm---a teeny little difference. Otherwise, exact, exact, precise and complete custom-to-that-action regulation, and make the final feel of aftertouch with with slight hammerline variations. Andre is so lyrical, and exactly echoes my experience. David Andersen On Feb 27, 2009, at 1:12 PM, andré oorebeek wrote: > I would like to explain just a little about the way I make > aftertouch because I have the feeling that some here do not > understand what I am talking about. > Let me first make clear that it took me one whole week of practice > (at Yamaha) to make sure that my 10 mm key dip was a Yamaha 10 mm > key dip. > I think that grueling week has made me appreciate a 10 mm key dip. > For me that is the absolute basis of a regulation. > What follows (the outcome) depends on the physical abilities of > keyboard and action. > A very sharp and refined regulation (what I call a turbo regulation) > usually gives a big enough striking distance to ensure raw power, > and I always get what I want. > The key dip is therefor my basis, my anchor. If it is good, it is > good. I shall not touch it. > The aftertouch I make by indeed raising or lowering (usually the > latter) the hammer line, thereby following the string level. > To me, that means getting the utmost of power and energy. > I have learned it from, among others Takahara-san and it gives me > incredible pleasure because it always works and I can always squeeze > the last drop of power, followed by a nice tuning. > Voicing all that power is like working with jewels, the crown jewels > of the instrument. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090227/55a2d8f5/attachment.html>
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