Thanks a lot David....show me up with a drawing <G> How do you do that? Al - High Point, NC From: David Love Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:45 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] An alternative to cutting the balance rail punching;was best way to change touch on Yamaha grand Sort of like this, the recess can be even shallower (sorry you need to be in html to view this). David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Skolnik Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:56 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] An alternative to cutting the balance rail punching; was best way to change touch on Yamaha grand David - I'm not seeing how you could accomplish this without weakening the wood in front of the balance hole. David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson, NY At 09:27 AM 2/11/2010, you wrote: >I was thinking about this procedure and it occurred to me that you >could simply rout out a shallow "u" shape right in front of the >balance rail hole on the bottom of the key. In my case I use very >thin balance rail punchings (those red hitch pin punchings because I >don't like to have to deal with balance rail punching compression >and the thinner red punching is less prone to compression) so >cutting those runs the risk of the key rocking onto the supporting >card punching underneath. Seems like routing out a small channel >in front of the balance rail hole (you could even do it with a >rounded file) would accomplish the same thing since the idea is >simply to avoid key contact with the punching as the key rotates >forward. For that matter, doing that in manufacturing would >somewhat obviate the need for the balance rail bearing. > >David Love >www.davidlovepianos.com > >From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] >On Behalf Of Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft >Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:07 AM >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Subject: Re: [pianotech] Al in N.C.--Question on procedure was- Best >way to change touch in Yamaha grand > >Julia, yes the key is upside down with the back-check in front of >you and the covered key away from you. I square up the front of the >key and I cut down toward the front of the key. > >If that's not clear, let me know and I will cut one and take a >photo. I don't know how to add a drawing. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100211/452dfcdd/attachment-0002.htm>
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