On 06/11/2010 17:40, Borys Medicky wrote:
> Michael Johnson wrote:
>
> "In order for you to get the key working at its
> best, you will be need to make sure the balance pin is slightly forward
> of upright to give that total freedom, this is an important detail and I
> have found on some instruments, when you depress the key you feel a
> variation in the resistance because that has not been understood."
>
> Thanks for sharing this item, Michael.  When you say "forward", do you mean the pin is tilted towards the front of the keyboard?  And is this accomplished by drilling the balance pin hole a bit canted, or do you bend the pins a little once they're in?
>



Borys I bore my keyboard pins upright at 90 degrees and make the adjust 
by tapping the pin into its perfect position for each key as I ease them 
for the first time.   This operation is done after the key have been 
finished and their sides have been cleaned off so the keyboard is ready 
for laying.You cannot lay a keyboard until every key is working 
perfectly.     I lay my keyboards as taught at John Broadwoods, The end 
keys are set to height and then all the high keys that move when the 
straight edge is tapped on the board are planed down to level, then the 
lows are papered up.    Given excellent wood selection for the blank 
that is a very quick job and requires little time and work.

-- 
www.michaeljohnsonharpsichords.co.uk


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