On 08/11/2010 08:36, Bill Jurgenson wrote:
>
> Very good advice!
> The fore/aft stance of the balance pin is extremely important and very
> dependent on the angle of the keys on their bed.
> I do essentially the same things the same way.
> Most essential, that you cannot level a keyboard that has not been
> eased and, preferably, already playing.
> Where possible, I do final leveling (of singles) in the instrument
> after preliminary voicing, just before staggering and pulling in the
> dampers, which I do last.



My keyboards are laid before fitting into the instrument, a technique 
brought over from my early piano years I'm afraid.    I bore a fine 
pinhole in the back of each key; this is done while the keys are still 
in a blank to take a brass balance weight.   These have been made from 
9mm brass rod with a pin in the bottom to sit into the hole on the key 
shaft.    I have a set that are the weight of two jacks and another set 
the weight on one jack to use on the upper manual.    They are put onto 
the keys once they have been eased on and are ready to level and left on 
until the keys go into the box.   That beds down all the back cloth 
dressings for me over the couple of weeks or so before they are 
needed.   It also helps a lot when cutting the coupler dogs to fit 
enabling me to do that job with great accuracy for each key and it upper 
manual partner.    Once the couplers have been cut and fitted, I simply 
put a 1mm card under the upper manual back touch cloth and that gives me 
a very accurate clearance for the coupler dog to upper manual key.    
Without that the upper manual will create taps playing in coupler and 
you also get help with the dip depth of the upper manual by create that 
lost motion.Of course this would be a bit over the top for the one off 
maker; I make a lot of instruments.



>
>
> I am sure Mike die not mean batpins.



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really:-)

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