Paul

Last time I was waiting for my technician Frans and his collegae Paul to finish their work on my Bechstein’s action, now the three of us are waiting for new parts for the piano action to be delivered by Renner.

Even after finetuning the Bechstein action as much as he could, there’s still an imbalance, it plays irregularly. But then he came up with another plan: PTD, Precision Touch Design.

In this intermezzo blog I will tell you about the quest for the “perfectly playing instrument”. A rather technical story but after all, this blog-site is about my Bechstein.

Pianist are funny people: first they choose an instrument which is basically a percussive one, striking strings with a hammer. Then they spend most of their time practicing to make the audience forget that fact by trying to produce a beautiful tone and make the instrument “sing”.