touchweight

English

Etymology

touch +‎ weight

Noun

touchweight (countable and uncountable, plural touchweights)

  1. (music) On a piano, downweight and upweight.
    • 2004, Robert Palmieri, editor, The Piano: An Encyclopedia, second edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 401:
      Piano technicians have to measurements at their disposal for measuring touchweight: downweight and upweight.
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