If you play that piano in that room, you will feel like you barely have to touch the keys to get a big sound. ![]() For example, let’s say you’re playing a 9 foot concert grand piano with bright voicing and a heavy action in a very small, live room. The amount of energy you have to expend to get sound out makes you feel like a piano action is either heavy or light. ![]() You feel like you’re working so hard to push down the keys. ![]() Sometimes a piano feels heavy and it’s not. We have had some pianos with heavy actions that didn’t feel heavy. A piano that has 65 – 70 grams of down weight in the middle register is a heavy piano. But, generally, a piano should be somewhere in that 48 – 60 gram zone. So, the action doesn’t have the same weight throughout the keyboard. The keys are longer and the hammers have more felt. Of course the lower notes on a piano are harder to push down than the higher notes. Typically, you want somewhere between 48 – 60 grams of down weight. The subject today is, “How Can A Piano With A Heavy Action Feel Light?” How can that be possible? Believe it or not, we have discovered this to be true! Sometimes we get a piano in and the action feels comfortable and light, but when the technicians weigh it out it’s really heavy.
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