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Regulation Strategy Review: A well-executed weighoff hones good grand regulating to exceed customer expectations. And the Grandwork System provides a weighoff-worthy regulation every time, with much of the work (including...
Christopher Brown |
I received the following question from a technician in response to my 2012 video describing use of the Grandwork™ Squaring Platform and Hammer Square. Q: Do you also square up the...
Christopher Brown |
The experienced regulator/voicer has filing skills, regulating chops, voicing tricks, and an array of solutions to apply in response to constraints of piano, time, budget, and the vicissitudes of by-eye...
Christopher Brown |
I feel that what happens at strike is most crucial to the piano's TPR (tone, power, and repetition), and that the best result shares compromises proportionately to favor the hammer...
Christopher Brown |
I think, whether by serendipity or design, such a configuration between plate and soundboard maximizes stability, resistance to collapse, and sensitivity to energy transfer from the strings. The bearing meets...
Christopher Brown |
...the miscreants should be repinned, properly filed, traveled to vertical, squared to vertical at strike, fit to strings by lifting strings (not left underlifted or overlifted) and see. And good...
Christopher Brown |
Greatest simplicity is the essence of the bullseye. If the vertical axis of the bullseye hammer is tipped in any direction, it complicates strike, energy transfer, and bounce (tone, power,...
Christopher Brown |
Strike sliding directly over the hammer centers in the Grandwork™ Regulation Station makes custom boring grand hammers simple, easy, and very efficient. And custom boring unties an unfriendly knot of hard choices and...
Christopher Brown |