[pianotech] An alternative to cutting the balance rail punching; was best way to change touch on Yamaha grand

[David Love]

Make the drawing in Paint or some other graphics program and copy and paste
into the body of the email.  Could also be saved and sent as an attachment
which is probably better then not requiring people to be in html format.  

 

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 10:30 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

 

Thanks a lot David....show me up with a drawing <G>

How do you do that?

 

Al - 
High Point, NC

 

 

From: David <mailto:davidlovepianos at comcast.net>  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.

> 

 

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