Test your own piano: touch, tone and stability; can it be improved? 

Thank you Gernhard we appreciate you being part of the community. Evan Roberts

Thank you Howard, very kind! Evan Roberts

Thank you for commenting SH, it's good to gauge your feedback for future videos. I wish you a successful rest of the week. Evan Roberts

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Hi Ken, I will allow my father to follow up with his recommendation. however, I think if you are working in a remote place and need parts and literature it is advisable to find a source for tools and parts you can rely on. Without needing to make big orders. Here in the US where I live (Texas), I use Pianotek for large order and Howard piano Industries. These two provide me with most of what I need. In terms of South Africa I know Howard would ship small parts. From the UK Fletcher and Newman as well as Hecksher & Company. Reblitz is a good manual to start with. There are specific literature on touch, hammer toning, restringing. Thank you for a great question, I'm sure there must be some other remote viewers out there. Greetings from Roberts Pianos Oxford, Evan Roberts

@@RobertsPianos Thank you for the information. I have contacted Howard by email for future cooperation and he is very helpful. I agree on the Reblitz manual. It's very accessible for the amateur. I have been considering getting Pianos Inside Out once I'm more familiar with the action and it's servicing, as this book appears very comprehensive. Thank you again for your time and all the good information you are making available for us 'out there'.

It's great to know the piano trade has a great future. ER

In these cases standard principles apply, Using the standard touch weights, and right techniques. As well as feeling for the amount necessary on this piano working one note to establish a template for the others. Evan Roberts

I bit late respond.. but what you may feel are "wippen support springs". Little springs at the back of the wippen that helps the wippens push upwards. This makes the piano feel very light when you are playing softly. If you play strongly, you will play faster that the spring can react. You get the full weight of the action.

We do not have too much experience restoring digital pianos so his advice will weigh more than ours. On digital pianos, they are slightly different weights due to action components not being the same, depending on the model.