Maybe if you stacked 'em up and forced them between the ribs and back posts of an upright! I think they would be more of a diminuendo than a crescendo, however. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>wrote: > > Personally, I'm still waiting to hear how they help reform lost crown on > old > soundboards. Kidding, of course. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On > Behalf > Of Jim Busby > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:31 AM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Vertical Touchweight > > David, > > I regularly replace everything, when possible, with Crescendo punchings and > it does make a positive difference. I have a gauge that does a simple, yet > maybe not too scientific compression test, and most punchings (I haven't > tried 'em all!) don't seem to be as dense, or at least "less compressible". > Players seem to like this "firm landing", for lack of better words. I've > done it on several piano faculty pianos w/o telling them what I did and > they > all commented something like this "I really like my piano! I feels _____ > (add your own word) better, firmer, more control, sounds better..." etc. > i.e. they all liked the results but couldn't really put a finger on one > thing. > > The new S&S punchings and the Kawai and Yamaha 9' pianos also seem to have > denser FR punchings than other models. Nearly ALL uprights seem to have the > "spongier" punchings, so it does seem to help. > > Jim Busby RPT > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On > Behalf > Of david at piano.plus.com > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:14 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Vertical Touchweight > > "Crescendo front rail punchings replaced the spongy "shoe > insole" material that came from the factory. What a difference" > > > Floyd, your mention of the Crescendo punchings used on an upright is > interesting - I've wondered myself if it would make much difference; the > mentions on here seem to have been in relation only to grands. > > When you said "what a difference!" did you mean specifically from the > Crescendo punchings, or from all the other bits too that you mentioned? > > I suppose with this piano, your work will bring it up to the limits of > what's possible for it, get the best that's possible out of it, in terms > of action responsiveness. It won't of course change soundboard and scale > factors, but it will be very interesting to find out to what extent the > piano becomes satisfying to play just through improving the action. > > Keep us posted > > David. > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090707/c85ba06d/attachment.htm>
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