At 20:38 -0400 19/4/10, jimialeggio wrote: >There is so much mumbo-jumbo to wade through... When I did my first >key re-proportion job I made new quarter sawn maple shoes. I got no >end of blabbering from experienced techs warning that they would >click and make noises. > >They didn't make noise, but it sure made me second guess what I >was doing. JD, in your experience do these harder balance holes >tend to make a racket? Mumbo-jumbo is the word, if it's not hocus-pocus. The only reason for using plain pine keys on a concert piano, liable to be attacked by keyboard-pushing prima donnas, is to cut costs. And Kluge had used a particularly soft piece of cheap fir for this keyboard; to keep things quiet? More likely to keep Steinways sweet with a low price. Same thing with Renner. You should see the jack spoons on this action. They bear no resemblance to the originally conceived spoon, which had a neat flat face; instead the button felt wraps round their mis-shapen face so that I can guess now I have regulated the jacks I'll need to go back in a year's time to take up the re-settling. JD -- ______________________________________________________________________ Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew Dorset DT11 0HX * England Phone: +44 1202 731 031 Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 ______________________________________________________________________
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