High action leverage

Chickering produced outstanding Erard and Brown style actions. We retain the original actions and their geometries. Pianists often comment on how “they play themselves”, or “played on this piano, these passages finally make sense”. The high leverage actions have a key dip a little less than modern actions. Pianists will sometime s require a little time to acclimate to the dip. However, the action’s tonal and tactile response is so intuitive, acclimation period is very quick. They then discover all the things they can now do, that previously they either couldn’t do, or only could do with concentrated effort. A lot of words can be shed on this experience but you need to feel it to know why these actions are so easy to play and control.