Weighing Off the Grand Action - Part 10

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 this response? Consistency note-to-note, a well-integrated tuning, and responsive repetition. They elicit confidence. And confidence taps all knowledge, feeling, and sensibility directly, without instruction from little voices in the head, without reference to who is listening or what they might think. Scales, memorization, and all forms of effort are transcended.

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How to Bore Grand Hammers to Custom Match String Heights

A question left in reference to one of my videos on hanging grand hammers finally receives a response after 2 years languishing unseen on YouTube. Come on, Chris... Q. With an uneven string height, did you then change the bore distance incrementally as you drilled the hammers?   A. An important question. String heights are often not parallel t...
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