Weighing Off the Grand Action - Part 10
When enthusiasm for a piano rises in the concert pianist, it is a wonderful thing. Their spirit soars, their talents fully manifest, and the listener gets emotional. What can stir...
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WEIGHING OFF THE GRAND ACTION – Part 8
The mechanics of a grand action are brilliant, a series of levers that reaches inside the piano while converting finger force into a hammer force that can play strings with...
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WEIGHING OFF THE GRAND ACTION - Part 6
Levers: Hammer weights and travel parameters get amplified or de-emphasized depending on the geometry between keytop and hammer crown. Generally, weight reduction at the key equals loss of hammer rise,...
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WEIGHING OFF THE GRAND ACTION - Part 5
How much can weighoff help grand action playability? Sometimes, as with poor action geometry, weighoff will not help unless problems are corrected first. I recently I found myself so challenged...
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A Baldwin R Tells Me What to Do
Last week I regulated a Baldwin R baby grand, vintage 1950, which featured five interesting points in an apparently standard-issue regulation. 1. Hidden studs, including the two outside ones –...
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Grand Regulation: Key Dip - Part 2
Key dip, the Articulator, specifies a note’s depth of stroke and resulting hammer rise. Along with blow distance, letoff, and other geometry, it fine-tunes aftertouch, the follow-through needed for good and...
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Relationship of Aftertouch to Backchecking
Q. Thoughts on aftertouch affecting checking? A. Aftertouch directly affects backchecking. If we define aftertouch as key travel after letoff, this can translate to backcheck travel after letoff, since the...
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What is Aftertouch?
Another question from one of my videos on the chrisbrownrpt YouTube channel - Settle Compressibles and Refine (Jan. 2, 2013) Q. How does aftertouch correlate to let-off? Is it simply the...
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