That is an appropriate clarification of what I said. The general "technician touch" regulation is of course not the pianists' touch. I assumed we were talking about regulation, not pianism. Paul In a message dated 11/27/2009 9:36:36 A.M. Central Standard Time, custos3 at comcast.net writes: Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:41 EST _PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com_ (mailto:PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com) wrote: The other so far unaddressed result is that the hammer on a medium or hard blow into check, then released, will rise to the position of the drop dimension from the string being raised by the "properly" sprung rep lever which is regulated to the drop dimension. Obviously all sorts of the things can go wrong with such close tolerances--spring regulation, check regulation, etc. Well, Paul, not exactly. It would be more accurate to say that "the hammer on a medium or hard blow into check, then released, WHILE THE KEY IS STILL HELD DOWN will rise to the position of the drop dimension from the string being raised by the "properly" sprung rep lever which is regulated to the drop dimension." If you just release the key, the hammer will simply return to rest position. Of course, what you describe is not something that is normally done by piano players (at least not deliberately - I suppose it could happen inadvertently) but only in the course of regulation by technicians... Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091127/538b099d/attachment.htm>
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