Jeff, Roger, this SD-10 has 10-year-old Renner blues, very little (capo) noise and/or the associated loss of power in this treble, and does sound very nice. Just to be sure Roger, I'm not talking about muting the front duplex, which gets a little excited when hammers wear or strings aren't level. I'm actually talking about the segment between the duplex and the tuning pins. These lengths are not scaled (3 vastly different lengths to reach 3 tuning-pins), and have no (intentional or otherwise) harmonic relationship with the speaking length. The only noise (music?) they contribute is the very same you encounter on an upright if someone forgot the string-braid/rest-felt above the pressure bar. (how do I know!?) (and you'd think the experience of having to jamb stringing-cloth between unisons, tuning-pins and the pressure bar, with strings at full tension would be enough to help me remember the next time! ;>) So their (musical?) contribution/participation will not be missed. thanks again guys, Mark C. -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Tanner Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:43 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] SD-10 duplex question On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Roger Jolly wrote: > > To work well, the hammer needs to be a bit softer and more flexible in > the shoulder. To be quite honest, I have no problems working with > this system. > > Regards Roger Nor do I. I much prefer the tone of our 1982 SF to the tone of the 1994's. It's much easier to tune, but that may be in the hammers. I'd love to know what those earlier hammers were, so I can replace the newer ones with something similar. I can't stand the sound these 1994 hammers produce. Jeff _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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