Lifting your hand as you play the note is a technique pianists use. It is opposite of striking the key. If you think of it in slow motion, your hand comes down, your finger touches the key first, then "launches" away from it as you let the action do the rest, and play the note. Requires hardly any force and you can play quite loudly if needed. TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Joseph Alkana <josephspiano at comcast.net> wrote: From: Joseph Alkana <josephspiano at comcast.net> Subject: RE: [pianotech] Regulation Question To: toddpianoworks at att.net, pianotech at ptg.org Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 3:56 AM I don’t understand how you can lift your hand and play the note at the same time. So you’ve checked that the jack is not “cheating”, or slipping out under the knuckle as you strike the key? The back check is not catching the hammer tail, tapping the hammer on its way to the string? Do you hear any extraneous noise cycling the action slowly? Is the problem eliminated with action out of the piano? Joseph Alkana From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Todd Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:13 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Regulation Question I was working on a Baldwin SF10 today. On several of the keys, I could play the note if I put my finger on the key first, then lifted my hand as I played the note. I could play forte or louder this way. But if I struck the key with my finger, the hammer would not go up. Any ideas? If yes, what could be the issue? TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090228/4226a68f/attachment.html>
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