Please bear with me, I've tried searching threads on this forum, as well as the old forum, and I keep coming up short of finding an answer.
I'm enjoying my new (old) Pokerwork. To make things better, four of my neighbors have moved out of the building, so I can practice around the clock. The box has obvious limitations that everyone except Hohner seem to be aware of, so I won't list all of them. However, there is one specific barrier to improving playability which is really tough.
I fixed excessive button travel by gluing popsicle sticks inside the keyboard, so that's out of the way. But I'm really having a tough time overcoming the issue of
button height. When I get a tune up to snuff, I am inevitably slowed down by buttons which have a high profile. My fingers are inclined to lift less and sometimes slide. I don't slide to the extent that the tune is sloppy and I practice staccato fingering regularly. I understand the rhythmical import of playing each note clearly (listening to old Chrissie Leatham recordings, for instance, it seems that her triplets are all done flat-fingered and staccato) but just a few millimeters would make all the difference in the world when the fingers of right hand are moving along the keyboard. A quick change in hand position up or own the keyboard can be totally thwarted by high buttons.
Can the action be modified to lower the button height? Would it be easier, or even possible, to find and install buttons that aren't square on the sides like Hohner buttons? If I was designing the box, I would have shaped the buttons like marbles!
Any help or advice would be much appreciated from anyone familiar with the problem, or fixing it. I imagine that it must be a common problem. If you can point me to an old thread that I may have missed, that would be helpful, too. Thanks in advance :)
