Technical Notes 2.0

piano key weighting first step, detail

Tim Hendy explains the reasons and methods for adjusting your pianos’s key weighting. See Piano keyboard weighing up / Lead Loading


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Piano Fun 1.0: Piano Delivery via Trebuchet


“I wanted to try it myself, since no one else was trying it …”

English countryside pursuits: using an immense homemade trebuchet to hurl two flaming pianos and a small red car across the fields. Trebuchet by Hugh Kennedy, clip by Star TV/World.

“Good enough, isn’t it? Hm”.

Serious Fun:

Other ways to change your piano:

Three thumbnail photos of Steinway piano split rail replacement

Replacing the Steinway action rail

Three thumbnail photos of piano keyboard lead-loading

Piano keyboard weighing-up, lead-loading, touch-weight adjustment

Detail of a still from piano action video by Tim Hendy

The modern upright piano action (video)

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