First of all, I would like to thank the Pianoconcerto.it staff for this long-awaited video tutorial, which has cleared up some of my doubts regarding the theoretical adjustments of grand and upright piano mechanics; our Maestro Paolo Ferrarelli demonstrates, as always, great professionalism and simplicity of language that allows someone like me, who is a "stubborn head," to understand the most hidden secrets of the art of adjusting and tuning our instrument.
I thank Maestro and Engineer Simone Renzi for his professionalism and for the patience to endure "old folks" who are a bit hard to understand, such as myself.
You are the best in this field, and compliments on all the work you do.
Best regards,
Saverio
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Great document on custom regulations! It would be very interesting to see some tutorials on restoration, such as soundboard voicing, replacing a wippen, string hitching methods, furniture restoration, and also interventions for correcting alignments between mechanical parts, hammer trajectory correction, etc.—all topics that would enrich the knowledge of each one of us.
I specifically noticed that when talking about escapement distance on the bass notes, it is said to consider at minimum the thickness of the string. This would mean that on a Steinway B211 (to use a well-known piano as an example) where the first bass string is about 6 millimeters thick, the escapement should be set to 6 mm. It is probably a slip of the tongue and it was referring to the radius of the string, which would be 3 mm, right? It is better to specify this; otherwise, everyone will start experimenting by considering the string thicknesses and make a huge mess :-D
It would be better to specify… but no more than 3 mm. That's fine. I agree. Thank you for the clarification. Sometimes when speaking, we tend to repeat what we have always stated, with some obvious implications that, however, rightfully must be specified. This is what happened in the Tuning Tutorial, where for the sake of brevity and practicality I stated "the fifth has the same beats as the inverted fourth"… Good heavens! I wanted to be deliberately "practical" even if a bit approximate, and this may not have been well received. Anyway, sometimes I try to simplify concepts as much as possible, since these videos are aimed at pianists and aim to help them acquire aspects of their instrument that are fairly unknown, without claiming to teach how to intervene in person.
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While you were saying it (he said it twice with a nice.... Pause) it was obvious that even you didn't believe it!
